>
> On my boxes with swap files, kernel 5.7.0 barfs;
>
> # file /swapfile
> /swapfile: Linux/i386 swap file (new style), version 1 (4K pages), size
> 2097151 pages, no label
> # swapon -a
> swapon: /swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument
>
> I havent looked into it yet as they're rarely used at all. What kernel are
> you using?
>

FYI this issue is due to fallocate creating files with holes (found via
dmesg | grep -i swap). Once I recreated the files with dd if=/dev/zero they
were good.

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