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Subject: Re: smart(8) Call for Testing
To: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>, Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net>
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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