So I've checked it out, and ext4 seems to work fine with fallocate. It could perhaps be considered a filesystem-bug as it seems that some xfs-developers are aware of the issue; https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg147100.html But it would be beneficial to have a work-around until that gets sorted.
So I've checked it out, and ext4 seems to work fine with fallocate. It could perhaps be considered a filesystem-bug as it seems that some xfs-developers are aware of the issue; https:/ /www.spinics. net/lists/ linux-mm/ msg147100. html But it would be beneficial to have a work-around until that gets sorted.