Re: Western Digital Red's SMR and btrfs?

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On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 8:00 PM Zygo Blaxell
<ce3g8jdj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 05:24:11PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:09 PM Zygo Blaxell
> > <ce3g8jdj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Some kinds of RAID rebuild don't provide sufficient idle time to complete
> > > the CMR-to-SMR writeback, so the host gets throttled.  If the drive slows
> > > down too much, the kernel times out on IO, and reports that the drive
> > > has failed.  The RAID system running on top thinks the drive is faulty
> > > (a false positive failure) and the fun begins (hope you don't have two
> > > of these drives in the same array!).
> >
> > This came up on linux-raid@ list today also, and someone posted this
> > smartmontools bug.
> > https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1313
> >
> > It notes in part this error, which is not a time out.
>
> Uhhh...wow.  If that's not an individual broken disk, but the programmed
> behavior of the firmware, that would mean the drive model is not usable
> at all.

I haven't gone looking for a spec, but "sector ID not found" makes me
think of a trim/remap related failure, which, yeah it's gotta be a
firmware bug. This can't be "works as designed".


-- 
Chris Murphy



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