On 10/02/2018 20:43, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sat, 2018-02-10 at 11:24 -0700, Alan Somers wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 10:28 AM, Willem Jan Withagen >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> This has been disabled on ZFS since last November. >>> And I do understand the rationale on this. >>> >>> BUT >>> >>> I've now upgraded some of my HEAD Ceph test systems and they now fail, >>> since Ceph uses posix_fallocate() to allocate space for the >>> FileStore-journal. >>> >>> Is there any expectation that this is going to fixed in any near future? >>> >>> --WjW >>> >> No. It's fundamentally impossible to support posix_fallocate on a COW >> filesystem like ZFS. Ceph should be taught to ignore an EINVAL result, >> since the system call is merely advisory. >> >> -Alan > > Unfortunately, posix documents that the function returns EINVAL only > due to bad input parameters, so ignoring that seems like a bad idea. > > Wouldn't it be better if we returned EOPNOTSUP if that's the actual > situation? That could be safely ignored. I would probably help in my situation.... And I've been looking at the manpage, but cannot seem to find any indication that EINVAL is returned on running it on FreeBSD. --WjWReceived on Sat Feb 10 2018 - 21:50:03 UTC
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