Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.12] block: handle invalid lseek returns gracefully

[Jeff Cody]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 07:57:14AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/02/2018 11:37 PM, Jeff Cody wrote:
> > In commit 223a23c198787328ae75bc65d84edf5fde33c0b6, we implemented a
> > workaround in the gluster driver to handle invalid values returned for
> > SEEK_DATA or SEEK_HOLE.
> > 
> > In some instances, these same invalid values can be seen in the posix
> > file handler as well - for example, it has been reported on FUSE gluster
> > mounts.
> 
> Yuck - that should be reported to the FUSE and gluster folks, as it does
> not scale to have everyone else work around their bug.  But in the
> meantime, working around it here is acceptable.
> 

Yes - there is a bug report on gluster still open for the lseek issue, I'll
make sure to add on it that it affects FUSE as well, so that they are aware.

-Jeff