Re: Adding SMART support to base

Hi Chuck,

This sounds great!

Could you prepare a DR on Phabricator that integrates your code base?
Do you plan to continue development in tree or do you want this to be
contributed software?

Yours,
Robert Clausecker

Am Sun, Apr 12, 2026 at 09:54:03AM -0700 schrieb Chuck Tuffli:
> A ways back, I wrote a small utility [1] for FreeBSD to retrieve SMART data
> in a unified way for ATA, NVMe, and SCSI drives. The application has been
> in the port's tree for about 8 years, but recently, I've gotten several
> inquiries (including from the Sylve developer) about the possibility of
> including this as a part of the base OS.
> 
> The application is tailored to being used in monitoring applications, and
> as such, does not try to include every bell and whistle found in the
> smartmontools suite (e.g., no daemon). I think this would fill a meaningful
> gap in the FreeBSD base system, but wanted to get feedback from others.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> [1] https://github.com/ctuffli/smart

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