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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2018 21:14:46 +0300
From:      Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>, Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net>
Cc:        Tom Evans via freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, Chuck Tuffli <chuck@tuffli.net>
Subject:   Re: smart(8) Call for Testing
Message-ID:  <e54ab9a7-835d-16c7-1fdd-9f8285c0642b@FreeBSD.org>
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On 27.03.2018 22:13, Rainer Duffner wrote:

> Maybe one of the vendors who sells FreeBSD as part of an appliance has shown some interest in this?
> 
> If you’re hardware is well-defined and thus the output is consistent, I could imagine it’s 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.

-- 
// Lev Serebryakov



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