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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265196 The following command fails on an NFS mountpoint: $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o preallocation=falloc disk.img 262144 Formatting 'disk.img', fmt=qcow2 size=262144 encryption=off cluster_size=65536 preallocation='falloc' lazy_refcounts=off qemu-img: disk.img: Could not preallocate data for the new file: Bad file descriptor The reason turns out to be because NFS doesn't support the posix_fallocate call. glibc emulates it instead. However glibc's emulation involves using the pread(2) syscall. The pread syscall fails with EBADF if the file descriptor is opened without the read open-flag (ie. open (..., O_WRONLY)). I contacted glibc upstream about this, and their response is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265196#c9 There are two possible fixes: Use Linux fallocate directly, or (this fix) work around the problem in qemu by opening the file with O_RDWR instead of O_WRONLY. Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> BZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265196 Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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