[request-sponsor] Request sponsor for openSolaris project smartmontools

2007-12-06 Thread lingjun wang (Simon)
Hi sponsor, Now we are responsible for porting GPL-licensed smartmontools to sfw. Here is its brief introduction: smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) system build into ATA and SCSI Hard

[request-sponsor] Request sponsor for openSolaris project smartmontools

2007-12-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
lingjun wang (Simon) wrote: Could you help us recommend a sponsor for this project? request-sponsor is for non-Sun-employed individuals to ask for a Sun employee to perform the steps of an integration that need to be done behind the Sun firewall (updating bugster, filing WebRTI's, doing putback

[request-sponsor] Request sponsor for openSolaris project smartmontools

2007-12-06 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com [2007-12-06 16:15]: lingjun wang (Simon) wrote: Could you help us recommend a sponsor for this project? request-sponsor is for non-Sun-employed individuals to ask for a Sun employee to perform the steps of an integration that need to be done

[request-sponsor] Request sponsor for openSolaris project smartmontools

2007-12-06 Thread Mike Shapiro
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:23:47PM +0800, lingjun wang (Simon) wrote: Hi sponsor, Now we are responsible for porting GPL-licensed smartmontools to sfw. Here is its brief introduction: smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage devices using the Self-Monitoring,

[request-sponsor] Request sponsor for openSolaris project smartmontools

2007-12-06 Thread Matty
On Dec 6, 2007 3:58 PM, Mike Shapiro mws at sun.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:23:47PM +0800, lingjun wang (Simon) wrote: Hi sponsor, Now we are responsible for porting GPL-licensed smartmontools to sfw. Here is its brief introduction: smartmontools contains utilities that

[request-sponsor] Request sponsor for openSolaris project smartmontools

2007-12-06 Thread Cynthia McGuire
Matty wrote: On Dec 6, 2007 3:58 PM, Mike Shapiro mws at sun.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:23:47PM +0800, lingjun wang (Simon) wrote: Hi sponsor, Now we are responsible for porting GPL-licensed smartmontools to sfw. Here is its brief introduction: smartmontools contains utilities

[request-sponsor] Request sponsor for openSolaris project smartmontools

2007-12-06 Thread Eric Schrock
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 04:02:50PM -0500, Matty wrote: One feature that smartmontools provides that isn't available with FMA is ability to query SMART attributes on a disk. Smartmontools provides the smartctl utility to perform this operation, and I think that alone warrants it's inclusion

[request-sponsor] Request sponsor for openSolaris project smartmontools

2007-12-06 Thread Mike Shapiro
One feature that smartmontools provides that isn't available with FMA is ability to query SMART attributes on a disk. Smartmontools provides the smartctl utility to perform this operation, and I think that alone warrants it's inclusion in opensolaris. Thanks, - Ryan Definitely agree. I