Supermicro and FreeBSD 9.2 PRERELEASE make_dev_physpath_alias: WARNING

[Sergey Kandaurov]

On 15 July 2013 14:02, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks at gmail.com> 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 at n500304800122877d/type at 0/slot at f/elmdesc at 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.

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