diff --git a/cmake/warnings.cmake b/cmake/warnings.cmake
index 76a73911eb4a..228e0c254e9c 100644
--- a/cmake/warnings.cmake
+++ b/cmake/warnings.cmake
@@ -44,3 +44,4 @@ no_warning(thread-safety-negative) # experimental flag, too many false positives
 no_warning(unsafe-buffer-usage) # too aggressive
 no_warning(switch-default) # conflicts with "defaults in a switch covering all enum values"
 no_warning(nrvo) # not eliding copy on return - too aggressive
+no_warning(missing-noreturn) # Clang: many throw-only overrides; marking [[noreturn]] on all of them is impractical
diff --git a/contrib/libhdfs3 b/contrib/libhdfs3
index d0ae7d256815..ceb428c52e6b 160000
--- a/contrib/libhdfs3
+++ b/contrib/libhdfs3
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit d0ae7d2568151feef61d3ec7896803262f0e0f91
+Subproject commit ceb428c52e6b4362a35ec18b69206d9bb94edce3
diff --git a/contrib/libhdfs3-cmake/CMakeLists.txt b/contrib/libhdfs3-cmake/CMakeLists.txt
index 0921c3c3831a..870ccfa46857 100644
--- a/contrib/libhdfs3-cmake/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/contrib/libhdfs3-cmake/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ set(SRCS
     "${HDFS3_SOURCE_DIR}/client/RawErasureCoderFactory.cpp"
     "${HDFS3_SOURCE_DIR}/client/RawErasureDecoder.cpp"
     "${HDFS3_SOURCE_DIR}/client/RawErasureEncoder.cpp"
+    "${HDFS3_SOURCE_DIR}/client/PositionStripeReader.cpp"
     "${HDFS3_SOURCE_DIR}/client/StatefulStripeReader.cpp"
     "${HDFS3_SOURCE_DIR}/client/StripeReader.cpp"
     "${HDFS3_SOURCE_DIR}/client/StripedBlockUtil.cpp"
diff --git a/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/NativeORCBlockInputFormat.cpp b/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/NativeORCBlockInputFormat.cpp
index 94c5d00f852d..b0310a3f86c8 100644
--- a/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/NativeORCBlockInputFormat.cpp
+++ b/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/NativeORCBlockInputFormat.cpp
@@ -96,9 +96,12 @@ extern const int ARGUMENT_OUT_OF_BOUND;
 
 
 ORCInputStream::ORCInputStream(SeekableReadBuffer & in_, size_t file_size_, bool use_prefetch)
-    : in(in_), file_size(file_size_), supports_read_at(use_prefetch && in_.supportsReadAt())
+    : in(in_)
+    , file_size(file_size_)
+    , use_offset_based_read(in_.supportsReadAt())
+    , use_async_prefetch(use_prefetch && use_offset_based_read)
 {
-    if (supports_read_at)
+    if (use_async_prefetch)
         async_runner = threadPoolCallbackRunnerUnsafe<void>(getIOThreadPool().get(), "ORCFile");
 }
 
@@ -114,13 +117,20 @@ UInt64 ORCInputStream::getNaturalReadSize() const
 
 void ORCInputStream::read(void * buf, UInt64 length, UInt64 offset)
 {
-    if (supports_read_at)
+    if (use_offset_based_read)
     {
         size_t bytes_read = 0;
         while (bytes_read < length)
         {
             size_t bytes_to_read = length - bytes_read;
             size_t n = in.readBigAt(reinterpret_cast<char *>(buf) + bytes_read, bytes_to_read, offset + bytes_read, nullptr);
+            if (n == 0)
+                throw Exception(
+                    ErrorCodes::INCORRECT_DATA,
+                    "ORC readBigAt returned no bytes at offset {} ({} bytes remaining of {}); input may be truncated or corrupted",
+                    offset + bytes_read,
+                    bytes_to_read,
+                    length);
             bytes_read += n;
         }
     }
@@ -134,7 +144,7 @@ void ORCInputStream::read(void * buf, UInt64 length, UInt64 offset)
 
 std::future<void> ORCInputStream::readAsync(void * buf, uint64_t length, uint64_t offset)
 {
-    if (supports_read_at)
+    if (use_async_prefetch)
     {
         return async_runner(
             [this, buf, length, offset]
diff --git a/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/NativeORCBlockInputFormat.h b/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/NativeORCBlockInputFormat.h
index 860bbd28b515..bba818fac082 100644
--- a/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/NativeORCBlockInputFormat.h
+++ b/src/Processors/Formats/Impl/NativeORCBlockInputFormat.h
@@ -33,7 +33,10 @@ class ORCInputStream : public orc::InputStream
 protected:
     SeekableReadBuffer & in;
     size_t file_size;
-    bool supports_read_at;
+    /// Use offset-based reads (ReadBuffer::readBigAt, e.g. hdfs pread) instead of seek+read; needed for ORC tail on HDFS EC.
+    bool use_offset_based_read;
+    /// Async wrapper only when caller enabled prefetch and the buffer supports read-at.
+    bool use_async_prefetch;
     ThreadPoolCallbackRunnerUnsafe<void> async_runner;
 
     std::string name = "ORCInputStream";