Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 23:54:55 -0700 From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug or Feature? -- Disappearing /dev/ nodes after mount Message-ID: <01fb8c1e-a9e8-816e-a2ef-2c45c721687c@holgerdanske.com> In-Reply-To: <20200612082224.9c1e3797.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <86546.1591917249@segfault.tristatelogic.com> <20200612082224.9c1e3797.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 2020-06-11 23:22, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:14:09 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> Interestingly, as I have just learned, when and if the user subesquently >> mounts the relevant partition, the corresponding `/dev/gpt/partname' node >> will, rather unexpectedly and magically, disappear until such time as the >> relevant partition is unmounted, whereupon it will reappear. >> 1) Is this behavior documented somewhere that I just failed to look at? >> If so, where? > > Interesting question - I would be interested in that, too. See Lucas, AF3E, p. 214 "GEOM Withering" [1]. David [1] https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#af3e
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