On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 8:18 AM Federico Ressi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > 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.
fallocate default mode is zero, and doesn't create holes. If there are holes, it's a kernel bug, and it needs to be fixed and kernel updated. It's also worth making sure cloud-init is using fallocate's default mode of zero. The simplest work around is to just create a swap partition instead of a swapfile, when using cloud images that have the buggy kernel. Or alternatively don't create either one, and instead write a config to /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf so the installation uses swap on a compressed zram device. > 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. I don't think cloud images get reissued after release. But you can reproduce that process and make your own cloud image that's identical to the Fedora one, except for the kernel. That way you can use a newer kernel that doesn't have the bug. Or like Dusty suggests, give the Fedora 34 Cloud images a whirl. Out tomorrow! -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ 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
