JDK 9 RFR of 8171452: (ch) linux io_util_md: Operation not supported exception after 8168628

[Brian Burkhalter]

Hi Martin,

On Dec 20, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Doerr, Martin <martin.doerr at sap.com> wrote:

> thank you very much for fixing this so quickly. I have tested the change and it does resolve the issue.

You are welcome. Thanks for verifying the patch.

> I'm happy with this version, but I can't tell if there are more cases where the fall back is desired. I guess old kernels which don't implement fallocate (ENOSYS) are no longer supported.

As noted below, I wonder whether the code should not just fall back for all unsuccessful fallocate64() calls. The fallback is to the same behavior which was there prior to the fix for JDK-8168628 so this seems safe. We’ll see whether a JDK 9 Reviewer has any comment on this point.

Best regards,

Brian

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> Change on Linux to fall back to ftruncate64() if fallocate64() returns EOPNOTSUPP. I am wondering however whether the fall back should occur for *all* cases where ftruncate64() returns non-zero?

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