smart(8) Call for Testing

Tue Mar 27 19:13:42 UTC 2018

> Am 27.03.2018 um 19:01 schrieb Charles Sprickman via freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs at freebsd.org>:
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> What is the goal of this tool?

Maybe to have a BSD-licensed version of a tool with sort-of the functionality of smartmontools?
Assuming that the later is GPLx-licensed.

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.

I admit I haven’t tried it and I don’t really have time to do that.