Re: Various bugs with the new 5.7 kernel on Fedora 32

[Samuel Sieb]

On 7/26/20 9:48 AM, George N. White III wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 12:47, Sreyan Chakravarty <[e-mail] 
> > wrote:
> I just upgraded to the new 5.7 kernel and it has a lot of bugs.
>
>
> If you are using ext4, look for the "swapfile has holes 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207585" message.   There 
> is a kernel bug, but two proposed fixes, one looks like a quick hack, 
> the other points to a more basic flaw in the implementation.

Interesting, I've only ever used "dd" to create swap files.  Anyway, if 
you do run into this problem, there's a very simple fix.