Useless SMART error is being alerted for NVMe drive

Hi,
OMV5 (5.3.2-1) is logging a "useless" NVMe property that leads to scary SMART alert emails that make me worry for no reason.
Here is what I am talking about.

This message was generated by the smartd daemon running on:


   host name:  [blip]
   DNS domain: [blop]


The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:


Device: /dev/disk/by-id/nvme-SPCC_M.2_PCIe_SSD_SerialNumberRemoved, number of Error Log entries increased from 40 to 42


Device info:
SPCC M.2 PCIe SSD, S/N:SerialNumberRemoved, FW:ECFM13.1, NSID:1, 256 GB


For details see host's SYSLOG.

This drive is new, and I've checked its health with other tools, and obviously it's doing great.

The report is referring to Error Information Log Entries. A quick search reveals it is not due to the drive health.

Some interesting discussion here from bugs.debian.org.

I am no expert of this tool but does somebody know what could be done, like tellling the utility to ignore this value (maybe it's not NVMe aware)?
Honestly I want SMART enabled for this drive, but only for real warnings.

Zitat von votdev

The issue must be fixed upstream (Debian or smartmontools). The OMV project can't do anything here. SImply create a filter rule in your email client that redirects those emails into trash in the meanwhile.

I already updated smartmontols to the actual latest version for another issue - wasn't detecting the NVMe drive for SMART reads, so it has something to do with Debian.

Zitat von ryecoaaron

Personally, I don't think you need smart for nvme especially if you leave some unpartitioned space on the drive. Most nvme drives are rated to write their entire capacity at least once a day for at least a few years. You should never hit this unless you are doing something crazy with it. If you just check the life left every six months after about 3 years, you would be probably know when it is going to need to be replaced.

Thanks for this advice, I will leave some unpartitioned space on the drive, disable SMART reading and rely on the hdsentinel tool to send me scheduled emails.

Zitat von d13m

How did you do that? Because I can see smartmontools is already the newest version (7.2-1).

If you look at the date, was a long time ago.
At the time we were running OMV5/Debian 10 which used an outdated version of smartmontools.