TODO

   1 TODO list for smartmontools:
   2
   3 $Id: TODO 3006 2009-12-19 21:04:17Z chrfranke $
   4
   5 See also the list of active tickets:
   6 http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/report/1
   7
   8 USB devices under Linux
   9 -----------------------
  10 Some USB devices can hang smartctl or smartd.  This is because these
  11 devices fail to comply with SCSI specifications for their packet
  12 command sets.  Work on improving the detection and bail-out procedures
  13 for these flawed devices, so that the user sees an informative error
  14 message and smartd/smartctl don't hang.
  15
  16 ATA-8
  17 -----
  18 Add ability to print counters/values from "Device Statistics" pages
  19 (General Purpose Log address 0x04).
  20 See ATA ACS-2 T13/2015-D Revision 1, Section A.5.
  21
  22 smartctl:
  23 ---------
  24 Parse and print additional Attribute flag meanings (IBM ones, eg
  25 performance etc).  These are now documented in atacmds.h -- we just
  26 need to modify the format of the Attribute table.
  27
  28 Modify the SMART self-test log table printing so that we ALSO print
  29 the value of the self-test failure checkpoint byte, if it's one of the
  30 recognized values.  See routine SelfTestFailureCodeName and
  31 documentation in atacmds.h.
  32
  33 smartd:
  34 -------
  35 Perhaps change <nomailer> special argument to -m to have also
  36 <nomailer_fork> which would actually work with -M exec to run the
  37 executable/script in the background rather than in the foreground.
  38 But let's wait for someone to request this. At that point we should
  39 probably use fork/exec rather than system().
  40
  41 Add ability to monitor "worst" value from attributes (sometimes it
  42 gets larger!) and to monitor the threshold value (sometimes it
  43 changes!).
  44
  45 Add command line option that scans devices then WRITES
  46 /etc/smartd.conf, perhaps as /etc/smartd.conf.output, just for devices
  47 that can be monitored.
  48
  49 Packaging
  50 ---------
  51 Under freebsd and solaris, the following are wrong:
  52 smartd.conf: has linux device paths
  53 smart*.in  : man pages have (mostly) linux device paths
  54
  55 configure packages with --enable-drivedb (?)
  56 configure packages with --enable-savestates (?)