File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.6682
<patchinfo incident="6682">
<issue id="1047198" tracker="bnc">smartd to suppress "failed to read Temperature" messages on controllers that do not support the feature</issue>
<issue id="1038271" tracker="bnc">Partner-L3: smartctl return code is 4 for "-H" Health</issue>
<issue id="983938" tracker="bnc">`After=syslog.target` left-overs in several unit files</issue>
<issue id="900099" tracker="bnc">smartmontools: generate_smartd_opts refers to init script</issue>
<issue id="1080611" tracker="bnc">[TRACKERBUG] FATE#321901: [ECO] smartmontools 6.5 for NVMe support</issue>
<issue id="321901" tracker="fate" />
<issue id="322874" tracker="fate" />
<category>recommended</category>
<rating>moderate</rating>
<packager>sbrabec</packager>
<description>This update for smartmontools fixes the following issues:
smartmontools was updated to 6.6 version (FATE#321901, bsc#1080611, FATE#322874)
Changes:
- smartctl:
* -i' and '--identify': ATA ACS-4 and SATA 3.3 enhancements.
* Control ATA write cache through SCT Feature Control
with '-s wcache-sct,ata|on|off[,p]' and '-g wcache-sct'.
* Print ATA Pending Defects log with '-l defects'.
* '-s wcreorder,on|off': New persistent flag ',p'.
* '-s standby': Prevent temporary drive spinup.
* '-n POWERMODE': New parameter to set exit status.
* '-g security': ATA Security Level check fixed.
* '-l scttemp*': Print minimum supported ERC Time Limit.
* '-q noserial': Now also suppresses "SAS address" output.
* '-i': Print IEEE EUI-64 of NVMe namespace.
* '-c': Print NVMe 1.3 feature flags.
* '-A': Print NVMe 1.3 thermal temperature transition
statistic.
* '-g/s dsn': Get/set ATA DSN.
- smartd
* Uses also device identify information to detect for duplicate
devices.
* '-e dsn' directive: Set ATA DSN.
* Improved SCSI/SAS temperature logging.
* Silence emails and log messages on open errors of
'-d removable' devices.
* Exit on device open error unless '-q never' or '-d removable'
is specified (regression).
- update-smart-drivedb: Now authenticates downloaded file with GnuPG.
- update-smart-drivedb: New options '--trunk', '--no-verify' and
'--export-key'.
- Device type '-d intelliprop,N' for IntelliProp controllers.
- SCSI: Default timeout increased to 1 minute.
- configure: New options '--with-gnupg', '--with-scriptpath' and
'--with-update-smart-drivedb=X.Y'
- configure: Checks for C++11 support option and requires
'--with[out]-cxx11-option' if option unknown or no C++11 support.
- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
- New smartmontools-* mailing list addresses.
- Man page formatting reworked.
- Linux:
* Uses SG_IO V4 API if supported.
* Devices behind hpsa driver are no longer detected as regular
SCSI devices.
- Darwin: Initial NVMe support based on undocumented API.
- FreeBSD:
* Fix panic on INVARIANTS enabled kernel.
* Improve ATA SMART STATUS check for legacy controllers.
* Compile fix for FreeBSD-11 and newer.
- NetBSD:
* NVMe support.
* Full 28-bit ATA support.
* Compile fix.
* Use a raw disk device file.
- OpenBSD: Compile fix.
- OS/2: Support for the OS2AHCI driver, updating source code,
adding autoscan support, adding self-test support.
- Windows fixes:
* Support for Windows 10 NVMe driver (stornvme.sys).
* Fix CSMI access for IRST driver 15.2.
* smartd: Ability to run PowerShell scripts with '-M exec'.
* smartd: New PowerShell script to send smartd warning emails
without external tools.
* package now provides PDF man pages.
- SCSI temperature error fixes (bsc#1047198)
- Drop systemd dependency on syslog.target (bsc#983938).
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2013-05/msg00102.html
Updated to 6.5 version:
* Experimental support for NVMe devices on FreeBSD, Linux and Windows.
* smartctl '-i', '-c', '-H' and '-l error': NVMe support.
* smartctl '-l nvmelog': New option for NVMe.
* smartd.conf '-H', '-l error' and '-W': NVMe support.
* Optional NVMe device scanning support on Linux and Windows.
* configure option '--with-nvme-devicescan' to include NVMe in
* default device scanning result.
* Device scanning now allows to specify multiple '-d TYPE' options.
* ATA: Added new POWER MODE values introduced in ATA ACS-2.
* ATA: SCT commands are no longer issued if ATA Security is locked.
* SCSI: LB provisioning improvements.
* SCSI: Fixed GLTSD bit set/cleared info messages.
* SCSI: Solid State media log page is no longer checked for tapes.
* SCSI: Improved handling when no tape cartridge in drive.
* SCSI: Workaround for buggy Seagate firmware.
* SAT: Improved heuristics to detect bogus sense data from SAT layer.
* smartd: Fixed crash on missing argument to '-s' directive.
update-smart-drivedb: Now uses HTTPS for download by default.
* update-smart-drivedb: New options to select URL and download tool.
* update-smart-drivedb: New download tool 'svn'.
* configure option '--without-update-smart-drivedb' to disable
update-smart-drivedb script.
* configure options '--disable-drivedb', '--enable-savestates',
'--enable-attributelog' and '--with-docdir' are no longer supported.
* autoconf < 2.60 and automake < 1.10 are no longer supported.
* Drive database file now also includes the DEFAULT setting
for each attribute.
* HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
* Darwin: New support files for package installer.
* New makefile target 'install-darwin' builds DMG image.
* Solaris: Auto detection of SATA devices behind SAT layer.
* Solaris SPARC: Legacy ATA support disabled by default.
New configure option '--with-solaris-sparc-ata' enables it.
File os_solaris_ata.s is no longer included in source tarball.
* Windows: Auto detection of USB devices specified by drive letter.
* Windows: Device scanning does no longer ignore unknown USB devices.
* Windows: Prevent drive spin up by '-n standby' check.
* Windows: New application manifests indicating Win 10 support.
* Windows smartd: '-m [sys]msgbox' is no longer supported.
* Windows installer: Defaults to 64-bit version on 64-bit Windows.
* Various code changes suggested by Clang Static Analyser and Cppcheck.
- enable "--with-nvme-devicescan" option
- use --with-savestates, --with-attributelog, --docdir instead of old options
Updated to version 6.0.4:
* Device type ' *d usbprolific' for Prolific PL2571/277x USB bridges.
* SAT: Support for ATA registers returned in fixed format sense data.
* smartctl ' *i' and ' * *identify': ATA ACS *4 and SATA 3.2 enhancements.
* smartctl ' *l xerror': Support for logs with more than 255 pages.
* smartctl ' *l devstat': Prints ACS *3 DSN flags.
* smartctl ' *l devstat': Read via SMART command if GP log is not
available.
* smartctl ' *l scttempsts': Prints SCT SMART STATUS (ACS *4) and
vendor specific SCT bytes.
* configure option ' * *with *systemdenvfile=auto' as new default.
* configure options ' * *disable *drivedb', ' * *enable *savestates'
and ' * *enable *attributelog' are deprecated.
* Corresponding ' * *with **' options are enhanced accordingly.
* Configure option ' * *with *docdir' is deprecated.
* autoconf < 2.60 and automake < 1.10 are deprecated.
(all of the above still work but a warning is printed if used)
* HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
* Linux: AACRAID fixes, SMART STATUS should work now.
* Linux: '/dev/megaraid_sas_ioctl_node' fd leak fix.
* Darwin: ' *S' command implemented, ' *l devstat' should work now.
* Cygwin: Compile fix.
* Windows: Device type ' *d aacraid' for AACRAID controllers.
* Windows: SAT autodetection based on IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY.
* Windows installer: Fix possible loss of user PATH environment variable.
- Cleanup and remove conditional macros; the package doesn't build
for SLE anyway
- Run Self Tests:
* Short Self Test every night
* Extended Self Test every month
* Discussion:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2015-03/msg00040.html
- Package empty /etc/smartd_warning.d for warning plugins.
- Re-add /usr/sbin/rcsmards symlink (bsc#900099).
- Fix service restart in smartmontools.generate_smartd_opts.in
(bsc#900099).
Updated to version 6.3:
- smartctl: Fixed bogus error messages from '-g/-s wcreorder'.
- smartctl prints ATA form factor.
- SCSI: Improved support of modern disks (SAS SSDs).
- SCSI: Fixed sense data noise from old disks.
- update-smart-drivedb man page.
- configure option '--with-smartdscriptdir'.
- configure option '--with-smartdplugindir'.
- configure option '--with-systemdenvfile'.
- configure option '--with-working-snprintf'.
- Removed build time stamps to support reproducible builds.
- Compile fixes for C++11.
- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
- Linux: Support for controllers behind AACRAID driver.
- Linux: Fixed DEVICESCAN max path count.
- FreeBSD: Fixed possible crash caused by wrong SCSI error handling.
- FreeBSD: Compile fix for kFreeBSD.
- Windows: Reworked CSMI port scanning.
- QNX: Compile fix.
- Make possible to disable broken SAT support by -d scsi+cciss,N
(bsc#1038271 https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/871).
- Build with large file support in 32 bit systems.
</description>
<summary>Recommended update for smartmontools</summary>
</patchinfo>
