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by the8472 2484 days ago
Some of the fallocate modes don't make much sense on CoW filesystems anyway. ZoL doesn't support preallocation either, you have to use FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE.

Lack of DIO might be a bigger issue. Then again it's often used by write-heavy workloads which probably don't want to use SMR drives anyway.