Index: share/man/man4/geom.4
===================================================================
--- share/man/man4/geom.4
+++ share/man/man4/geom.4
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd August 13, 2019
+.Dd April 23, 2022
 .Dt GEOM 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -443,6 +443,20 @@
 .It 0x80 Pq Dv G_F_CTLDUMP
 Dump contents of gctl requests.
 .El
+.Pp
+By default
+.Va g_vfs_done
+reports all errors on requests to the disk subsystem.
+However, the error code
+.Va ENXIO
+is reported on all pending I/Os when the underlying disk has
+been destroyed.
+This can result in a large spew of information that cannot easily be acted upon.
+The
+.Va kern.geom.report_enxio
+sysctl can be set to
+.Va false
+to suppress these messages, but still report other errors.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr libgeom 3 ,
 .Xr DECLARE_GEOM_CLASS 9 ,
Index: sys/geom/geom_int.h
===================================================================
--- sys/geom/geom_int.h
+++ sys/geom/geom_int.h
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
 extern struct thread *g_down_td;
 extern int g_shutdown;
 extern int g_notaste;
+extern bool g_report_enxio;
 
 /* geom_ctl.c */
 void g_ctl_init(void);
Index: sys/geom/geom_kern.c
===================================================================
--- sys/geom/geom_kern.c
+++ sys/geom/geom_kern.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
 int __read_mostly g_collectstats = G_STATS_PROVIDERS;
 int g_shutdown;
 int g_notaste;
+bool g_report_enxio = true;
 
 /*
  * G_UP and G_DOWN are the two threads which push I/O through the
@@ -228,6 +229,9 @@
 SYSCTL_INT(_kern_geom, OID_AUTO, notaste, CTLFLAG_RW,
 	&g_notaste, 0, "Prevent GEOM tasting");
 
+SYSCTL_BOOL(_kern_geom, OID_AUTO, report_enxio, CTLFLAG_RW,
+	&g_report_enxio, 0, "Report ENXIO errors in g_vfs_done");
+
 SYSCTL_INT(_kern_geom, OID_AUTO, collectstats, CTLFLAG_RW,
 	&g_collectstats, 0,
 	"Control statistics collection on GEOM providers and consumers");
Index: sys/geom/geom_vfs.c
===================================================================
--- sys/geom/geom_vfs.c
+++ sys/geom/geom_vfs.c
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 #include <sys/mount.h>
 
 #include <geom/geom.h>
+#include <geom/geom_int.h>
 #include <geom/geom_vfs.h>
 
 /*
@@ -147,8 +148,10 @@
 			sc->sc_enxio_active = 1;
 		if (sc->sc_enxio_active)
 			bip->bio_error = ENXIO;
-		g_print_bio("g_vfs_done():", bip, "error = %d",
-		    bip->bio_error);
+		if (bip->bio_error != ENXIO || g_report_enxio) {
+			g_print_bio("g_vfs_done():", bip, "error = %d",
+			    bip->bio_error);
+		}
 	}
 	bp->b_error = bip->bio_error;
 	bp->b_ioflags = bip->bio_flags;