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> _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
