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RFE: Make SMART service less confusing #914

Open roweryan opened 9 years ago

roweryan commented 9 years ago

On the Disks page, you can enable SMART per disk, but on the services page, the smart config is blank and the notes say to add DEVICESCAN -a - which one should we do!

phillxnet commented 8 years ago

I suspect that the best approach here is going to be the addition of a proper configuration page for smart tests, where the existing 'blank entry' would form the advanced options within that page. Ie a selection of testing profiles to be assigned individually to drives that then dictate the generated contents of smartd.conf; possibly then made visible but not editable in the 'advanced' box that we currently have. Probably easier to just drop this box when a proper config page is available though as the main purpose for entries here is to schedule device checks of particular type which really deserves it's own dedicated page and doesn't easily fit into the existing scheduled tasks framework.

Also note that it would be good to provide the built in facility to not wake drives that are in suspend mode for a set number of tests, after which they will be woken anyway so as not to have remained untested for too long a period.