bug in mdconfig -l (does not list all devices)

[Pieter de Goeje]

On Saturday 28 April 2007, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Is it a bug or is it a desired feature, that mdconfig -l doesn't list
> all devices, but only last 95 devices?
>
> root at grimm2 ~/# mdconfig -l
> md545 md546 md547 md548 md549 md550 md551 md552 md553 md554 md555 md556
> md557 md558 md559 md560 md561 md562 md563 md564 md565 md566 md567 md568
> md569 md570 md571 md572 md573 md574 md575 md576 md577 md578 md579 md580
> md581 md582 md583 md584 md585 md586 md587 md588 md589 md590 md591 md592
> md593 md594 md595 md596 md597 md598 md599 md600 md601 md602 md603 md604
> md605 md606 md607 md608 md609 md610 md611 md612 md613 md614 md615 md616
> md617 md618 md619 md620 md621 md622 md623 md624 md625 md626 md627 md628
> md629 md630 md631 md632 md633 md634 md635 md636 md637 md638 md639
>
> There are 640 devices, but only 95 shown in the list.
>
> root at grimm2 ~/# ls /dev/md*[^a-z] | wc -l
>       640
>
> So following code doesn't work as I expect
>
> for device in `mdconfig -l`
> do
>          echo "destroying $device"
>          mdconfig -d -u $device
> done
>
>
> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Feb 27 22:41:06 UTC 2007
> root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
> Can somebody test it on STABLE / CURRENT?
It works correctly on current but fails on stable.
>
>
> Miroslav Lachman
Cheers,
Pieter de Goeje