mesh/merge-gate pass: builds new: modules/sensors, sent nowhere; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
The second review of #129 found a read stuck in the kernel kept the file fresh and the module healthy,
smartd as a second reader could wake or keep awake the drives the watch spares, and a board chip's
maximum could stop a fan. Read each drive in its own goroutine from a root reader of the module's own,
mark each read in flight, and say a read past its bound or a drive not looked at for twice its cadence;
drop smartd; tell smartctl each drive's kind; take a SAS drive's standby; say a drive asleep since when.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds new: modules/sensors, sent nowhere; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
The review of #129 found false alarms and a silent failure: the NVMe temperature bit, old-age
attributes, a fan's minimum or latched alarm, an unrelated hot sensor and a board chip's limits could
raise a condition, while a hung smartctl stopped the fans' looks and an old readings file passed as
healthy. Read spinning drives hourly (smartd too) so a read never keeps one from spinning down, and skip
a drive that cannot say whether it sleeps.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds new: modules/sensors, sent nowhere; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
Temperatures against the hardware's own thresholds, fans, each drive's health and the kernel's error
counts, read-only. A root watch reads SMART so the tools need no root and never wake a sleeping drive;
smartd and the watch carry the health that raises a condition when the hardware says it is failing.