On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 07:18:24PM +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
> "Richard W.M. Jones" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 06:45:33PM +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
> >> "Richard W.M. Jones" <[email protected]> writes:
> >> 
> >> > I was definitely expecting this one to fail with ENOTSUP or similar.
> >> > That's with the file copy-allocated-destination-zero-synch.out on ZFS?
> >> 
> >> Yes - my home directory is on ZoL, and so is ~/tmp.
> >
> > It appears this is a limitation of OpenZFS:
> >
> > https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/blob/fc519b2c1108b52aaad63e356645f63c2c167f82/module/os/linux/zfs/zpl_file.c#L665
> 
> I figured that might be the case.  ZFS has a few instances of similar
> issues.

In QEMU, we ended up skipping several tests on ZFS that rely on
measuring sparseness, because of the unpredictability of ZFS:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/c49dda72

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libguestfs.org
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