Re: PANIC: could not flush dirty data: Operation not permitted power8, Redhat Centos

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 1:04 PM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 7:57 PM <zedaardv(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > I forgot to mention that this is happening in a docker container.
>
> Huh, so there may be some configuration of Linux container that can
> fail here with EPERM, even though that error that does not appear in
> the man page, and doesn't make much intuitive sense. Would be good to
> figure out how that happens.

Steve Dodd ran into the same problem in Borg[1]. It looks like what's
happening here is that on PowerPC and ARM systems, there is a second
system call sync_file_range2 that has the arguments arranged in a
better order for their calling conventions (see Notes section of man
sync_file_range), and glibc helpfully translates for you, but some
container technologies forgot to include sync_file_range2 in their
syscall forwarding table. Perhaps we should just handle this with the
not_implemented_by_kernel mechanism I added for WSL.

[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2019-August/043276.html

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