Comment 144 for bug 445852

Would it be useful to create a "dummy" libatasmart4 package that responds to its calls with something innocuous but doesn't actually probe the SMART status? I see it's not easy to just yank it out because of other packages' dependencies upon it. I would prefer to disable the package in a way that survives ordinary software updates.

I'm not sure how @mint-one was able to avoid filesystem breakage... I wasn't able to reapply the patch in time, though maybe I was just especially un-lucky or un-careful.

P.S.: The Patriot Lite 32GB SSD upgrade on my ASUS 900 seems most susceptible to damage when the root partition or the root + swap partitions completely fill the drive. I don't know what that might mean, except that it's a "bigger target" for breakage. The beta 9.10 NBR installers (prior to October) could not even finish the job without completely trashing the filesystem before grub was installed.