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diff --git a/doc/sg3_utils.8 b/doc/sg3_utils.8 index a4716e3e..3dbda8e7 100644 --- a/doc/sg3_utils.8 +++ b/doc/sg3_utils.8 @@ -199,6 +199,16 @@ da0 instead of /dev/da0). That worked in this package up until version original action (i.e. allowing unadorned device names) has been restored in version 1.46 . Also note that symlinks (to device names) are followed before prepending "/dev/" if the resultant name doesn't start with a "/". +.PP +FreeBSD's NVMe naming has been evolving. The controller naming is the +same as Linux: "/dev/nvme<n>" but the namespaces have an +extra "s" (e.g. "/dev/nvme0ns1"). The latter is not a block (GEOM) +device (strictly speaking FreeBSD does not have block devices). Initially +FreeBSD had "/dev/nvd<m>" GEOM devices that were not based on the CAM +subsystem. Then in FreeBSD release 12 a new nda driver was added that is +CAM (and GEOM) based for NVMe namespaces; it has names like "/dev/nda0". +The preferred device nodes for this package are "/dev/nvme0" for NVMe +controllers and "/dev/nda0" for NVMe namespaces. .SH SOLARIS DEVICE NAMING SCSI device names below the /dev directory have a form like: c5t4d3s2 where the number following "c" is the controller (HBA) number, the number |