SMART monitoring workaround for NVMe SSDs with smartd inkluding e-mail notification

[simon-77 (Simon)]

I moved my post to this thread, as it better fits the discussion there:

SMART not supported?

Unfortunatelly I have some more examples of failing drives to contribute - this time a nvme SSD used in my workstation, running openSUSE Leap 15.6. The SSD suddenly failed with a bunch of Buffer I/O error on dev nvme0n1p2 in the kernel log. Interestingly, after a “cool down” of about 3 h, the SSD worked again for ~ 1h, letting me take a recent backup and even finish a btrfs scrub successfully. That was the nvme state during this time window, where everything seemed normal again: $ sudo nvme …