On 4/26/21 10:17 AM, Federico Ressi wrote:
> Hello all,

Hey Frederico,


> 
> I am writing to this list because I found out F33 cloud image cloud init 
> support for creating swap files looks to be broken probably because of a 
> known Linux 5.7+ kernel issue [1].
> 
> The problem is cloud-init is trying to create a new swap file by using 
> fallocate command that is not working well (kernel is complaining the file 
> has holes when executing swapon command just later). The easy workaround for 
> this issue is to use dd command instead of fallocate command in cloud-init.
> 
> Because I don't know the whole procedure required for submitting a patch I am 
> writing to you in the hope you can help me in having the F33 cloud image 
> fixed.
> Please find attached to this e-mail the simple fix for cloud init 19.4 I just 
> wrote. The patch should apply the procedure documented in Fedora docs [2]

Do you know if this is fixed in upstream cloud-init already? Fedora 34, which 
is about to be released tomorrow has cloud-init-20.4-1.fc34.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> Federico
> 
> [1] https://marcelhauri.ch/blog/swapon-swapfile-has-holes/ 
> <https://marcelhauri.ch/blog/swapon-swapfile-has-holes/> 
> [2] 
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/s2-swap-creating-file.html
>  
> <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/s2-swap-creating-file.html>
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