aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/README.freebsd
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDouglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>2021-03-28 00:58:36 +0000
committerDouglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>2021-03-28 00:58:36 +0000
commit9ccb556a21f1aa2c8d08052622aa4471b7acd6a3 (patch)
tree47fbc1779312c01ed306b1685e3f4494abc0ee44 /README.freebsd
parent865ab8e10f0e1dfadc31bd27e51d4fdac1075293 (diff)
downloadsg3_utils-9ccb556a21f1aa2c8d08052622aa4471b7acd6a3.tar.gz
sg_dd: setup conditional auto rule for getrandom()
git-svn-id: https://svn.bingwo.ca/repos/sg3_utils/trunk@883 6180dd3e-e324-4e3e-922d-17de1ae2f315
Diffstat (limited to 'README.freebsd')
-rw-r--r--README.freebsd11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/README.freebsd b/README.freebsd
index afdd2079..aa066ef4 100644
--- a/README.freebsd
+++ b/README.freebsd
@@ -86,8 +86,13 @@ hopefully will not confuse the FreeBSD users.
Device naming
=============
In FreeBSD disks have block names like '/dev/da0' with a corresponding
-pass-through device name like '/dev/pass0'. Use this command
-"camcontrol devlist" to see that SCSI devices available.
+pass-through device name like '/dev/pass0'. Use this command:
+"camcontrol devlist" to see that SCSI devices available. To list NVMe
+devices: "nvmecontrol devlist" can be used. Any many, but not all
+contexts, the device name can be used without the '/dev/' prefix.
+FreeBSD is relatively unique in this respect and support for this
+abbreviated form has been broken in this package and fixed in
+release 1.46 .
FreeBSD installation
====================
@@ -144,4 +149,4 @@ utilities.
Douglas Gilbert
-5th June 2020
+26th March 2021