With a033019 smartd does not run scheduled tests on NVME devices (ATAs are fine)

[arcivanov]

The relevant smartd.conf:

DEVICESCAN -a -l xerror -l offlinests -m root@localhost -M test -n standby,10,q -s (O/../.././(00|06|12|18)|S/../.././01|L/../../6/03)

The Linux system has sda, sdb, sdc and nvme0.

sda - sdc look like this:

smartctl pre-7.5 (build date Oct 16 2023) [x86_64-linux-6.5.9-200.fc38.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Samsung based SSDs
Device Model:     Samsung SSD 870 EVO 1TB
...

SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      3248         -
# 2  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%      3228         -
# 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      3224         -
# 4  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      3200         -
# 5  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      3176         -
# 6  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      3152         -
# 7  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      3128         -
# 8  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      3104         -
# 9  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      3080         -
#10  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%      3060         -
#11  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      3056         -
#12  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      3032         -
#13  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      3008         -
#14  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      2984         -
#15  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      2960         -
#16  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      2936         -
#17  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      2912         -
#18  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%      2892         -
#19  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      2888         -

But for nvme0 the situation is different:

smartctl pre-7.5 (build date Oct 16 2023) [x86_64-linux-6.5.9-200.fc38.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number:                       Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB

...

Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries)
Num   ErrCount  SQId   CmdId  Status  PELoc          LBA  NSID    VS  Message
  0        190     0  0x000c  0x4004      -            0     0     -  Invalid Field in Command

Self-test Log (NVMe Log 0x06)
Self-test status: No self-test in progress
Num  Test_Description  Status                       Power_on_Hours  Failing_LBA  NSID Seg SCT Code
 0   Short             Completed: failed segments             1617     65075488     1   7   -    -

The failing short was launched manually via smartctl -t short /dev/nvme0

As you can see from history no regularly scheduled tests are performed on NVME on the same system where they are successfully performed on eligible ATA devices.

[chrfranke]

NVMe self-test support in smartmontools is a new feature currently only implemented in smartctl, see ticket 1649.

[arcivanov]

@chrfranke Please see the above PR adding the missing functionality.