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Filesystem mounting ro with heavy NVMe I/O
  • Thanks, I'll try that. I loaded the drive using dd a couple of times, and that did bring the system down a couple of times. I was writing to the filesystem though, while the system was booted

  • Filesystem mounting ro with heavy NVMe I/O
  • Both drives were encrypted (Samsung as root drive, encrypted except for the efi partition, and kioxia fully encrypted and mounted via crypttab and a key file residing on the encrypted Samsung partition for automatic unlock), although now as I have been reinstalling quite often, and couldn't be bothered to set up the encryption for the second drive so it stays unused atm. Trim is enabled via a kernel parameter, but not in the fstab directly anymore (as I'm running BTRFS now, and from what I've gathered passing the ssd option to BTRFS is enough to enable trim, verified with lsblk --discard)

  • Filesystem mounting ro with heavy NVMe I/O
  • Unfortunately I have no other system at hand at the moment that's able to accept nvme drives :( I could try using windows for a couple of days see whether the issue is really linux-related, but I am trying to avoid that lol

  • Filesystem mounting ro with heavy NVMe I/O
  • Boot a live ISO with the flags recommended in the kernel message and do some tests on the bare drives. That way you won’t have the filesystem and subsequently the rest of the system giving out on you while you’re debugging.

    Which tests are you referring to exactly? I have read about badblocks for example, and it not being much use for ssds in general, due to their automatic bad-block-remapping, so they remain invisible to the OS as all remapping happens in the drive's controller. Smart values look great for both drives, about 20TBW on the Samsung drive, and a lot less on the Kioxia drive.

  • Filesystem mounting ro with heavy NVMe I/O
  • Thanks for helping! Unfortunately, journalctl doesn't show anything really. Trying to run journalctl -b -1 shows Specifying boot ID or boot offset has no effect, no persistent journal was found., which is a bit strange. It used to just show the previous journal (I couldn't find anything suspicious though), but no error related stuff, I assume due to the filesystem being mounted ro right after the crash, it wasn't able to write anything to the journal unfortunately. EDIT: The only errors I have seen in dmesg were related to a Broadcom PCIe wireless card (which I have removed now for further testing): brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-2), device may have limited channels available. Although I have read that this is a common message for this type of card (broadcom 43602) and it's nothing to worry about.

    The fstab looks like this (redacted UUIDs for clearer formatting):

    / btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=256,subvol=/@ 0 0 /home btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=257,subvol=/@home 0 0 /.snapshots btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=258,subvol=/@.snapshots 0 0 /opt btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=259,subvol=/@opt 0 0 /root btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=260,subvol=/@root 0 0 /srv btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=261,subvol=/@srv 0 0 /var btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=262,subvol=/@var 0 0 /var/lib/portables btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=263,subvol=/@var/lib/portables 0 0 /var/lib/machines btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=264,subvol=/@var/lib/machines 0 0 /var/lib/libvirt/images btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=265,subvol=/@var/lib/libvirt/images 0 0 /var/spool btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=266,subvol=/@var/spool 0 0 /var/cache/pacman/pkg btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=267,subvol=/@var/cache/pacman/pkg 0 0 /var/log btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=268,subvol=/@var/log 0 0 /var/tmp btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=269,subvol=/@var/tmp 0 0 /boot vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 2

    Regarding firmware updates, I have tried running fwupd, but no updates are available. Tried both samsung's and kioxia's update tool on Windows too, both drives are running the latest firmware.

    Thanks for the detailed reply, I will check the reddit post out. Although my PSU should be powerful enough, and it is relatively recent (3-4 years, so I assume the deterioration should not be that bad)

  • Filesystem mounting ro with heavy NVMe I/O

    Hi everyone,

    I have been experiencing some weird problems lately, starting with the OS becoming unresponsive "randomly". After reinstalling multiple times (different filesystems, tried XFS and BTRFS, different nvme slots with different nvme drives, same results) I have narrowed it down to heavy IO operations on the nvme drive. Most of the time, I can't even pull up dmesg, and force shutdown, as ZSH gives an Input/Output error no matter the command. A couple of times I was lucky enough for the system to stay somewhat responsive, so that I could pull up dmesg.

    It gives a controller is down, resetting message, which I've seen on archwiki for some older Kingston and Samsung nvmes, and gives Kernel parameters to try (didn't help much, they pretty much disable aspm on pcie).

    What did help a bit was reverting a recent bios upgrade on my MSI Z490 Tomahawk, causing the system to not crash immediately with heavy I/O, but rather mount as ro, but the issue still persists. I have additionally run memtest86 for 8 passes, no issues there.

    I have tried running the lts Kernel, but this didn't help. The strange thing is, this error does not happen on Windows 11.

    Has anyone experienced this before, and can give some pointers on what to try next? I'm at my wits end here. EDIT: When this issue first appeared, I assumed the Kioxia drive was defective, which the manufacturer replaced after. This issue still happens with the new replacement drive too, as well as the Samsung drive. I thus assume, that neither drives are defective (smartctl also seems to think so)

    Here are hardware and software details:

    • Arch with latest Zen Kernel, 6.7.4, happened with other, older kernels too though, tried regular, lts and zen
    • BTRFS on LUKS
    • i9-10850k
    • MSI z490 Tomahawk
    • GSkill 3200 MHz RAM, 32GB, DDR4
    • Samsung 970 Evo 1TB & Kioxia Exceria G2 1TB (tested both drives, in both slots each, over multiple installs)
    • Vega 56 GPU
    • Be quiet Straight Power 11 750W PSU
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