On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:59:22PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> The 'fallocate -l 196608 $image' step in the test fails when $image is
> on an NFS mount. Use dd instead to create a sparse file. We do not need
> to allocate anything since we are only writing zeros.
> 
> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.ji...@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
> ---
>  test/firmware-update.sh |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/test/firmware-update.sh b/test/firmware-update.sh
> index 0d5bcdb3cc42..173647218c28 100755
> --- a/test/firmware-update.sh
> +++ b/test/firmware-update.sh
> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ detect()
>  
>  do_tests()
>  {
> -     fallocate -l 196608 $image
> +     dd if=/dev/zero of=$image bs=1 count=1 skip=196607
>       $ndctl update-firmware -d $dev -f $image
>  }

Hmm, I'm not seeing this failure in my NFS based setup.  Out of curiosity, do
you know why it's failing?  Some difference in our NFS configs?

Anyway, this seems fine, but 

fallocate -l 196608 $image

does the same thing and seems a little simpler, IMO.

- Ross
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