Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:11:41 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Michael Dexter <editor@callfortesting.org> Cc: FreeBSD FS <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: smart(8) Call for Testing Message-ID: <CANCZdfp3X15HZXQq376ioRD45JY9edRCFyOS%2B_1C-=h2j_UaZA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7f9d7848-e584-6d75-baab-99cd19f5bcd3@callfortesting.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> <7f9d7848-e584-6d75-baab-99cd19f5bcd3@callfortesting.org>
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On Mar 27, 2018 12:23 PM, "Michael Dexter" <editor@callfortesting.org> wrote: On 3/27/18 9:45 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > What is the purpose of this utility and why it should be in base if almost > everyone will need to write something to do the "real job" or "pkg install > smartmontools". > > Maybe I just don't see something... > Scriptability. smartmontools output is not parsing-friendly and generally, an operatory only wants four or so key values such as hours, temperature and a variation on reallocated sectors. This facilitates that and with a license that would allow its inclusion in At $WORK we grab all the attributes daily to do heard studies on the drives. We need little more than what's here for that. But we have thousands of machines and nobody ever logs into them unless there is a problem. Doing heard studies is the only way we found to predict failure and even then it's only weakly so... smartmontools is overkillfor that... Warner
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