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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:10:01 +0200
From:      Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com>
To:        Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com>
Cc:        Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Supermicro and FreeBSD 9.2 PRERELEASE make_dev_physpath_alias: WARNING
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Op maandag 15 juli 2013 schreef Sergey Kandaurov (pluknet@gmail.com) het
volgende:

> On 15 July 2013 14:02, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > We use basic supermicro cases for our storage servers in combination
> with a
> > LSI 9211-8i controller in IT mode.
> >
> > Since 9.1 or shortly there after we get for every disk we attach to the
> SAS
> > backplane the following error.
> >
> > make_dev_physpath_alias: WARNING - Unable to alias
> > gptid/abb586f5-da8d-11e2-aaaf-00259061b51a to
> > enc@n500304800122877d/type@0/slot@f/elmdesc@Slot_15
> /gptid/abb586f5-da8d-11e2-aaaf-00259061b51a
> > - path too long.
> >
> > I know it does not harm the operation, but every time the server boots or
> > when we add a disk i get a little scared when i see WRNINGS passing by.
> >
> > Is there a way to supress these WARNINGS, or is there something i can do
> > about it.
>
> This is because the name is longer than SPECNAMELEN.
> You barely can do anything with it. The warning is hidden under bootverbose
> in 10-CURRENT, and I think it should be merged to stable/9 before 9.2
> release.
> Meantime you can manually apply this change:
>
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/235899
>
> > I know on 9.0 i do not get these messages.!
> That's odd. AFAIK the feature had appeared in 9.0.
>
>
Well i am sure these messages started after 9.0
I have one 9.0 machine left which does not show them.
All the others are upgraded and started to show these warnings.

Thanks for your time.

Regards
Johan



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