Stefan Sperling: > On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 06:03:48PM +0000, Ivan Markin wrote: >> Sebastien Marie: >>> Do you run these commands on the ramdisk (bsd.rd) ? If yes, all the >>> /dev/sd* aren't created by default. >> >> Why it is so? Can this be found somewhere in documentation? > > If the ramdisk shipped with all possible device nodes, the small > ramdisk filesystem would run out of inodes. > > The installer script compensates for this by creating device nodes it > knows will be needed, so normally you don't have to think about this. > Because the install script does not support FDE installs at present, > the /dev/rsd3c device node is not created automatically. >
Thanks for the explanation! It would be great if someone can add this note to the FAQ [1]. [1] https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraidFDE -- Ivan Markin
