[regression] Unable to use /dev/disk/by-id in smartd.conf

[Giuseppe Iuculano]

Hi,

a Debian user reported a regression against the svn revision [2879]. He can't use anymore /dev/disk/by-id in smartd.conf. I can confirm that. smartctl seems also affected.

Error message:

Device: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3200822A_3LJ00N4L, unable to autodetect device type
Device: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD6400AAKS-00A7B2_WD-WMASY2546840, unable to autodetect device type

# smartd -V
smartd 5.39 2009-08-29 r2879 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, ​http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

smartd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free
software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2.
See ​http://www.gnu.org for further details.

smartmontools release 5.39 dated 2008/03/10 at 10:44:07 GMT
smartmontools SVN rev 2879 dated 2009-08-29 at 17:19:00
smartmontools build host: i686-pc-linux-gnu
smartmontools build configured: 2009/09/03 08:19:25 UTC
smartd compile dated Sep 3 2009 at 08:19:50
smartmontools configure arguments: '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-initscriptdir=/etc/init.d' '--with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/smartmontools' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=' 'CPPFLAGS=' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fsigned-char -Wall -O2'

Original bug report:
​http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544823

[Christian Franke]

Fixed in r2898.

Please note that only the /dev/disk/by-*/* symlinks are dereferenced for autodetection.

[Giuseppe Iuculano]

Thanks!