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Smartmontools 7
Hello,
It would be nice to have by default Smartmontools 7 and not 6.5 (which more than 3 years old) ;-) It is available in the CentOS base repo.
Thank you.
Changing the default version requires testing to avoid regressions. We'd need to track down where exactly smartmontools is used to make sure there's no risk of regressions.
Is version 7 100% backward compatible with version 6.5? If not, what changed?
@stormi I don't really know what has changed between the two version. I know that many disks type have been added in the database included in version 7. I think it is not 100% backward compatible because of that : - smartctl '-x': Now includes '-l defects'.. Other changes seems to be only added options.
Does CH/XCP-NG use smatmontools ?
The changelog is here : https://www.smartmontools.org/browser/tags/RELEASE_7_0/smartmontools/NEWS
For information, the disk database is in the .h file : https://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/smartmontools/drivedb.h
Oh, I just found that the database could be updated separatly. https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Download#Updatethedrivedatabase
Was the database update test successful, without requiring an update of the software itself?
I think the json output in smartmontools 7 will make it easier to implement #263
Sorry I forgot to answer here. I just replaced drivedb.h by a new one and it worked (on XCP-NG 8.2).
curl -o ~/drivedb.h https://www.smartmontools.org/browser/branches/RELEASE_7_2_DRIVEDB/smartmontools/drivedb.h?format=txt
cp /usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h /usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h.sav
cp ~/drivedb.h /usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h