Mount: write: Bad file descriptor with FileInfoTimeout=-1

[kalemas (Konstantin Maslyuk)]

Continuing the discussion from VFS is slow when reading in small (8 bytes) chunks:

@ncw i m hurry to convey that we encountered error while writing files with enabled kernel space read ahead (-o FileInfoTimeout=-1) for rclone mounted disk. I think it make sense for hurry as you noted that you would make kernel read ahead enabled by default in next rclone release but i need some time to prepare complete case description.

In simple, python is known to be affected when copying files to virtual file system with something like this:

with open(physical_path, 'rb') as source:
    with open(rclone_path, 'wb') as dest:
        while True:
            buf = source.read(1024*1024)
            if not buf:
                break
            dest.write(buf)

It raises OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor at some point.

System copy seems to be not affected with this issue.

[kalemas (Konstantin Maslyuk)]

Here is case description, updated on rclone master and run with kernel read ahead

$ git pull
Already up to date.

kalem@DESKTOP-R6MR0O4 MINGW64 ~/Work/dev/thirdparty/rclone (master)
$ git show --stat
commit 11eeaaf792776b598f80e1416f5c9629840e16d8 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: eNV25 <env252525@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 30 15:29:46 2023 +0200

    cmd/ncdu: fix add keybinding to rescan filesystem

 cmd/ncdu/ncdu.go | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

kalem@DESKTOP-R6MR0O4 MINGW64 ~/dev/thirdparty/rclone (master)
$ CPATH="C:\\Program Files\\WinFsp\\inc\\fuse;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\WinFsp\\inc\\fuse" go run -tags cmount rclone.go mount :local:f: x: --vfs-cache-mode=full -o FileInfoTimeout=-1
The service rclone has been started.

cause simple file copy python program to fail:

kalem@DESKTOP-R6MR0O4 MINGW64 ~/Work/dev/thirdparty/rclone (master)
$ python <<EOF
s = open('C:\\\\Users\\\\kalem\\\\Desktop\\\\image.png', 'rb')
d = open('x:\\\\Temp\\\\test.png', 'wb')
while True:
  buf = s.read(1024*1024)
  if not buf:
    break
  d.write(buf)
EOF
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 7, in <module>
OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

without -o FileInfoTimeout=-1 or with above zero values it runs fine but read ahead should not be enabled.