sym(4)

sym4

Symmetric access scsi devices

Usage

sym* at scsibus?

Overview

The sym driver attaches to SCSI logical units that support symmetric access, i.e. all paths to the device are as good as each other. Each path attached to by sym is presented to mpath(4) which uses it as a backend to the logical unit attached to its own scsibus(4).

Releases

32 releases since OpenBSD 5.0; the text changed 1 time.

  1. 5.0–5.3
  2. 5.4–8.0

History

The sym driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.0.

Authors

David Gwynne ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.