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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode">[I posted it once
already, but it ended up buried in another discussion thread due
to a botched InReplyTo]<br>
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Is libatasmart a going concern? The functionality overlaps with
smartmontools, and the development seems to have stalled [1]. I
originally started using libatasmart few years ago because it had
better support for USB bridges, i.e. it allowed reading SMART data
from USB external enclosures, which smartctl couldn't do at the
time.<br>
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Recently, however, I ran into issues in skdump reading the SSD
SMART attributes. I opened a bugzilla case [2], but there has been
no traffic there.<br>
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Is there a reason for two SMART utilities? I believe that the
current smartctl functionality is a superset of libatasmart's. Are
there capabilities in libatasmart that justify its separate
existence?<br>
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[1] last commit on <a
href="http://git.0pointer.de/?p=libatasmart.git">http://git.0pointer.de/?p=libatasmart.git</a>
is from 2 years ago <br>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1103179">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1103179</a><br>
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