[pve-devel] applied: [PATCH storage] disk manage: pass full NVMe device path to smartctl

Thomas Lamprecht t.lamprecht at proxmox.com
Tue Dec 13 13:28:40 CET 2022


Am 12/12/2022 um 13:33 schrieb Fiona Ebner:
> This essentially reverts commit c9bd3d2 ("fix #1123: modify NVME
> device path for SMART support").
> 
> The man page for smartctl states
>> Use the forms "/dev/nvme[0-9]" (broadcast namespace) or
>> "/dev/nvme[0-9]n[1-9]" (specific  namespace 1-9) for NVMe devices.
> so it should be fine to pass the path with the specific namespace to
> smartctl.
> 
> But that text was already present in the man page of version 6.5,
> which is the version the commit c9bd3d2 talks about. It might be that
> it was necessary to drop the specific namespace for the version
> backported from Stretch to Jessie (the bug report mentions that that
> version was used[0]), but it's not quite clear.
> 
> With current versions, passing in the path with the specific namespace
> did work as expected[1], even on a device with multiple namespaces set
> up tested locally. In PBS, the path queried via
> udev::Device::from_syspath("/sys/block/{name}") is passed to smartctl
> and that also included the specific namespace on the systems I tested
> with a short script.
> 
> So pass the full path to make things a little bit simpler and to avoid
> potential future issues like bug #2020[2].
> 
> [0]: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1123#c3
> [1]: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/113962/post-493185
> [2]: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2020
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>
> ---
>  PVE/Diskmanage.pm                                         | 2 --
>  test/disk_tests/nvme_smart/{nvme0_smart => nvme0n1_smart} | 0
>  2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
>  rename test/disk_tests/nvme_smart/{nvme0_smart => nvme0n1_smart} (100%)
> 
>

applied, thanks!





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