nvd disk on nvme controller not detected at boot-time

[Jim Harris]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Maikel Verheijen <
Maikel.Verheijen at redwood.com> wrote:

>  Hi Jim,
>

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>    I'm currently running FreeBSD 10.0 with updates from freebsd-update.
> Would FreeBSD 10.1-RC be safe for a production environment or would it be
> better to wait until the real release? The machine is not used for
> production yet, but we do want to go live with it in the near future. I
> currently use a “workaround”, I’m not loading ZFS at boot time but use a
> custom RC script to load the nvd module, test if the nvd0 disk is there,
> then load the ZFS module. That seems to work for now, but having it work
> “out of the box” would be better, and a lot less prone to manual mistakes
> made by me :)
>
> I cannot recommend whether 10.1-RC would be safe for a production
environment, but you could certainly use 10.1-RC to at least confirm it
fixes the issues described.

You could also apply these two patches to your 10.0 kernel tree and rebuild
just nvme.ko.

Best regards,

-Jim