* Ludwig Nussel
Cristian Rodríguez schrieb:
El 08/10/14 a las #4, Ludwig Nussel escribió:
After struggling with my harddisk I noticed that we don't have smartd enabled by default. Shouldn't we change that to get hard disk monitoring by default on every installation? But then IIUC smartd only logs to syslog which a desktop user will never see. Are there any ways to notify deskop users in case of imminent trouble?
Hrmmm.. I thought all major desktop environments reported smart failure if udisks tells so..I do not think we should enable smartd by default but make the notification work if it does not.
I wasn't aware of udisks taking care. If that is the case smartd doesn't make sense on default desktop installs of course. It would still be
udisks2 can just notify listeners over DBus. OTOH smartd has the ability to directly send mail, emit a wall(1) notification or to schedule a shutdown of the machine. I think just relying on desktop notifications is inadequate for this, desktops like GNOME make them easy to overlook, if you are not logged in, are using a window manager without a notification daemon, are logged in on the console, or are just logged in remotely you are likely to completely miss it. We need a notification mechanism that is both immediate and persistent, FDO desktop notifications totally fail at that.
interesting to know which desktops support smart via udisks.
codesearch.debian.net suggests that gnome-disk-utility is the only consumer of that API.
Too bad qemu doesn't seem to have support for SMART so we can't use openqa to check.
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