Hello Kevin, * Kevin Price <k...@osnanet.de> [210625 11:00]: > fallocate -d seems to attempt to unallocate that last block if it > contains only zeros, and it even updates the file's mtime. The > unallocation is reported, but doesn't effectively happen.
Did you verify this is a bug in fallocate and not a bug or side-effect of the kernel-side implementation, possibly in the used filesystem? Can the effect still be seen with Linux and util-linux from bullseye? BTW, which filesystem are you trying this on? Chris
