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Date:      Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:38:22 +0200
From:      Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
Subject:   Re: 13.0: partiton names changed
Message-ID:  <2221205.THHZn3L5Ee@walrus.pepperland>
In-Reply-To: <04b8c47f-17a6-f0dc-1f96-c079bf76de13@yandex.ru>
References:  <80999036.0ko45tJjV3@walrus.pepperland> <04b8c47f-17a6-f0dc-1f96-c079bf76de13@yandex.ru>

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On Monday, April 12, 2021 9:31:21 AM CEST Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> 10.04.2021 16:38, Stefan Ehmann пишет:
> > I've just updated an old machine from 12.2 to 13.0
> > (ea31abc261ffc01b6ff5671bffb15cf910a07f4b)
> > 
> > Attaching the /home EBR partition gave me this puzzling error:
> > 
> > # geli attach ada0s5
> > Enter passphrase:
> > geli: Provider not found: "ada0s5"
> > geli: There was an error with at least one provider.
> > 
> > Further investigation showed that there is a symlink from /dev/ada0s5 to
> > ada0s4+00000001 but geom doesn't recognize ada0s5 anymore.
> > 
> > Didn't find anything about it in the release notes:
> > https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/relnotes/
> > 
> > I guess EBR is no longer in wide use, but this is an old installation, as
> > already mentioned.
> 
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24939

Thanks for the pointer (PR 232463 was already mentioned in private 
communications).

As I said above, there is a symlink in /dev. But geom eli is not aware of any 
aliases/links which breaks EBR eli entries in /etc/fstab.

After reading the summary of D24939, I'm not sure if this behavior is 
intentional.




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