[FEAT] Update bundled smartmontools for newer JMB39x/QNAP TR-004 SMART support #944

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3. Starosdev commented on Oct 12, 2026

   

   Starosdev

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   Thanks for the report and the upstream link.

   The JMB39x self-test support is merged on smartmontools main (commits daa557089a, a93ab7845f, 4d0d6ab4ed and 0a78084d74, June 2026), but no smartmontools release contains it yet. The latest release is still 7.5, and upstream main is now versioned 8.0 with no release date set. Debian packages 7.5 in every suite, including trixie-backports, which is what our images install.

   We will not ship a build of unreleased smartmontools main in the default images. The collector images install smartmontools from trixie-backports without a version pin, so they move to 8.0 on the first image rebuild after Debian packages it. We will keep this issue open until a released image reports 8.0 and the TR-004 self-test log shows up in Scrutiny.

   If you want to try the upstream changes before then, the collector can use a different smartctl binary through COLLECTOR_COMMANDS_METRICS_SMARTCTL_BIN (config key commands.metrics_smartctl_bin). You would build smartctl from smartmontools main on Debian trixie so its shared libraries match the image, mount it into the collector container read-only, and point that variable at the mounted path. We have not tested this with a TR-004, and it means running an unreleased smartctl, so treat it as experimental.

   If you do try it, the output of smartctl -d jmb39x-q,0 -l selftest --json /dev/sdX from inside the container would help us confirm the self-test log comes through and that Scrutiny parses it correctly.

   The bay setup itself is unchanged and is described under "USB/SATA Enclosures (JMicron JMB39x - QNAP TR-004/TR-002)" in docs/TROUBLESHOOTING_DEVICE_COLLECTOR.md.

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