On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 15:03, Ed Cashin <ecas...@coraid.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 02:52:47PM -0500, Billy Crook wrote: >> I saw this post by Sam Hopkins indicating that there would eventually >> be support for aoe in smartctl. That was in 2004. >> http://osdir.com/ml/linux.utilities.smartmontools/2004-12/msg00003.html >> >> I'm running smartmontools release 5.38 dated 2008/03/10 at 10:44:07 >> GMT, but the only options listed for -d are ata, scsi, marvell, sat, >> 3ware,N, hpt,L/M/N cciss,N. Am I missing something or did aoe never >> make it in to my smartmontools? > > I have a partial implementation of a patch to aoe6-70 that would pass > SMART commands to AoE targets when a process does the HDIO_DRIVE_CMD > ioctl with ATA_CMD_SMART commands that don't overload the sector count > and don't get or put more than a kilobyte of data. > > I can only work on it occasionally, but I am making progress, and > there's one volunteer ready for beta testing already. When it's ready > the patch will be posted on the "aoe Proving Grounds" blog.
It's already in my feed reader :-) > The volunteer has some Welland boxes that can pass the SMART commands > to their attached PATA drive. Only folks with AoE targets like that > will be interested in this patch. Some AoE targets aren't backed by a > real ATA device---instead they're backed by an abstraction (like a > RAID of disks) or a file in a filesystem. For those targets, passing > through SMART isn't a good fit. Would a SATA drive behind vblade, or behind the LayerWalker 16800 chip be a good fit? If so, I'd be glad to beta it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Aoetools-discuss mailing list Aoetools-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aoetools-discuss
