On 01/10/2013 03:08 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
smartmontools... could be dropped, if people don't use it much. All it does
out of the box is e-mail root (and throw messages at the tty.)
smartmontools brings in smartctl which starts and displays status from
SMART tests. The replacement is I guess libatasmart (sktest/skdump), but
it's not quite satisfactory yet:
- smartctl -t reports how long the test will take, sktest doesn't
- smartctl -a reports past test results, skdump doesn't AFAIK
- there's very little in the way of man pages/docs for skdump
- I have seen cases where smartctl works across the USB interface but
skdump doesn't---although the reverse was more common and recently both
seem to work equally well.
In summary, libatasmart is not yet a fully satisfactory replacement for
this arguably important functionality. I would be willing to work with
Lennart on addressing those, if there's consensus to dump smartmontools.
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