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| author | Chuck Tuffli <chuck@tuffli.net> | 2026-06-02 18:43:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org> | 2026-07-20 11:59:31 +0000 |
| commit | 6fccfbd5028d569058a18832c96bf548aa7b1916 (patch) | |
| tree | 155cd940c201b42bda0025322e6c74cc11e6f440 | |
| parent | 638d1fc36ec103d26c224983042d22bbe4b75ef5 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2026-04-2026-06/smart.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2026-04-2026-06/smart.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e66e3fea67 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2026-04-2026-06/smart.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +=== Native S.M.A.R.T. data retrieval in FreeBSD + +Links: + +link:https://github.com/ctuffli/smart[S.M.A.R.T. on GitHub] URL: link:https://github.com/ctuffli/smart[] + +Contact: Chuck Tuffli <chuck@freebsd.org> + +FreeBSD has imported a native Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) utility, man:smart[8], into the base system, providing lightweight, built-in disk health monitoring capabilities without requiring third-party packages. +It was inspired by the man:diskctl[8] framework proposed at AsiaBSDCon 2016 to create a permissively-licensed S.M.A.R.T. utility addressing licensing and functionality gaps in existing tools. + +The utility provides a unified interface for retrieving S.M.A.R.T. data across multiple storage protocols, including ATA, NVMe, and SCSI. +It focuses on ease of integration with monitoring tools, providing multiple output formats (tab-delimited fields, JSON, XML) via man:libxo[3] and allowing users to query specific health attributes. |