Re: I/O errors while writing to external Transcend XS-2000 4TB SSD

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On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 04:52:09PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Kent Overstreet - 11.02.24, 19:51:32 CET:
> > On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 06:06:27PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> […]
> > > CC'ing BCacheFS mailing list.
> > > 
> > > My original mail is here:
> > > 
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/5264d425-fc13-6a77-2dbf-6853479051a0
> > > @applied-asynchrony.com/T/ #m5ec9ecad1240edfbf41ad63c7aeeb6aa6ea38a5e
> > > 
> > > Holger Hoffstätte - 11.02.24, 17:02:29 CET:
> > > > On 2024-02-11 16:42, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > > > > Hi!
> > > > > I am trying to put data on an external Kingston XS-2000 4 TB SSD
> > > > > using
> > > > > self-compiled Linux 6.7.4 kernel and encrypted BCacheFS. I do not
> > > > > think BCacheFS has any part in the errors I see, but if you
> > > > > disagree
> > > > > feel free to CC the BCacheFS mailing list as you reply.
> > > > 
> > > > This is indeed a known bug with bcachefs on USB-connected devices.
> > > > Apply the following commit:
> > > > 
> > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/c
> > > > ommi t/fs/bcachefs?id=3e44f325f6f75078cdcd44cd337f517ba3650d05
> > > > 
> > > > This and some other commits are already scheduled for -stable.
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > Oh my. I was aware of some bug fixes coming for stable. I briefly
> > > looked through them, but now I did not make a connection.
> > > 
> > > I will wait for 6.7.5 and retry then I bet.
> > 
> > That doesn't look related - the device claims to not support flush or
> > fua, and the bug resulted in us not sending flush/fua devices; the main
> > thing people would see without that patch, on 6.8, would be an immediate
> > -EOPNOTSUP on the first flush journal write.
> > 
> > He only got errors after an hour or so, or 10 minutes with UAS disabled;
> > we send flushes once a second. Sounds like a screwy device.
> 
> Thanks for that explanation, Kent.
> 
> I am the one with that external Transcend XS 2000 4 TB SSD and I
> specifically did not CC bcachefs mailing list at the beginning as after
> seeing things like
> 
> [33963.462694] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#10 uas_zap_pending 0 uas-tag 1 inflight: CMD 
> [33963.462708] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#10 CDB: Write(16) 8a 00 00 00 00 00 82 c1 bc 00 00 00 04 00 00 00
> […]
> [33963.592872] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#10 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_RESET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=182s
> 
> I thought some quirks in the device to be at fault.
> 
> However while Sandisk Extreme Pro 2 TB claims to support DPO and FUA I see
> 
> Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> 
> also with other devices like external Toshiba Canvio 4 TB hard disks. Using
> LUKS encrypted BTRFS on those I never saw any timeout while writing out
> data issue with any of those hard disks. Also with disabled write cache
> any cache flush / FUA request should be a no-op anyway? These hard disks
> have been doing a ton of backup workloads without any issues, but so far
> only with BTRFS.
> 
> I may test the Transcend XS2000 with BTRFS to see whether it makes a
> difference, however I really like to use it with BCacheFS and I do not really
> like to use LUKS for external devices. According to the kernel log I still
> don't really think those errors at the block layer were about anything
> filesystem specific, but what  do I know?

It's definitely not unheard of for one specific filesystem to be
tickling driver/device bugs and not others.

I wonder what it would take to dump the outstanding requests on device
timeout.




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