Re: IO failures with SMR drives at latest kernel versions

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Hi

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/22/2015 07:23 PM, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Anatol Pomozov
>> <anatol.pomozov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Discs are from different batches and I was a bit surprised to see
>>> identical failures at the same time. I was ready send the drives to
>>> RMA but then I discovered this thread
>>> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=199351 A lot of people
>>> report the same problem as mine. It was found that the problem appears
>>> only starting from 3.19, with kernel 3.18 or Windows these drives work
>>> fine. It is recommended to revert this change
>>> 9162c6579bf90b3f5ddb7e3a6c6fa946c1b4cbeb "libata: Implement
>>> ATA_DEV_ZAC" that seems fixes the issue.
>>
>> I looked at this commit and it actually adds SMR support to SCSI
>> layer. Reverting ATA_DEV_ZAC means going back to zones-unaware
>> algorithms. It is suboptimal but still much better than IO failures
>> and "BTRFS: lost page write due to I/O error on /dev/sdc" errors I see
>> at my computer.
>>
>> If this SMR support is considered as non-stable, can we at least get a
>> kernel boot (or config) option that disables ZAC?
>>
> Again: Has anybody actually _tested_ that reverting this patch fixes
> this issue?
> Or even a proper bisect?
>
> Needless to say, my drives work without issues, so I can't really
> reproduce this issue.
>
> Which disks are these?

I have ST8000AS0002
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178748

Here is smartctl info https://gist.github.com/anatol/66f5368208c903133f24
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