Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:27:52 -0700 From: Chuck Tuffli <chuck@tuffli.net> To: lev@freebsd.org Cc: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>, Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net>, Tom Evans via freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: smart(8) Call for Testing Message-ID: <CAM0tzX3RanY=vZbCXTAHB3=kv6aVkuzO5pmwr9g%2BZQoe%2BN1hVg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e54ab9a7-835d-16c7-1fdd-9f8285c0642b@FreeBSD.org> References: <4754cb2f-76bb-a69b-0cf5-eff4d621eb29@callfortesting.org> <CAMXt9NbdN119RrHnZHOJD1T%2BHNLLpzgkKVStyTm=49dopBMoAQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAM0tzX1oTWTa0Nes11yXg5x4c30MmxdUyT6M1_c4-PWv2%2BQbhw@mail.gmail.com> <CAMXt9NYMrtTNqNSx256mcYsPo48xnsa%2BCCYSoeFLzRsc%2BfQWMw@mail.gmail.com> <CAM0tzX32v2-=saT5iB4WVcsoVOtH%2BXE0OQoP7hEDB1xE%2Bxk%2Bsg@mail.gmail.com> <1d3f2cef-4c37-782e-7938-e0a2eebc8842@quip.cz> <A548BC90-815C-4C66-8E27-9A6F7480741D@bway.net> <7ED27465-1BC2-4522-873E-9ECE192EB7A2@ultra-secure.de> <e54ab9a7-835d-16c7-1fdd-9f8285c0642b@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 27.03.2018 22:13, Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> Maybe one of the vendors who sells FreeBSD as part of an appliance has s= hown some interest in this? >> >> If you=E2=80=99re hardware is well-defined and thus the output is consis= tent, I could imagine it=E2=80=99s not too difficult to parse this. > smartd is very important part of smartmontools, smartctl is not so. > > And periodic self-test triggering & check is most important feature of > smartd, IMHO. > > Modern HDDs are liers in SMART. And only regular self-test discover > real errors on surfaces in my experience. > > So, tool without support for HDD self-tests is of little usage for > appliances, IMHO. Thank you for the feedback! As I don't have any experience with smartd, can you help me better understand which parts of it are most useful to you? Is it just periodically triggering the self test or are there other features as well? For example, logging the SMART values, emailing / triggering notifications when certain criteria are met, monitoring the self tests, reading the error logs, etc.? --chuck
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