Re: [ndctl PATCH] ndctl, test: kill usage of fallocate in firmware-update.sh

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.jiang(a)intel.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams(a)intel.com&gt; --- 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 }