On 01/29/2018 06:57 AM, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
> index 6c00c1e2743f..72e213d62511 100644
> --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
> @@ -76,6 +77,19 @@ dcache isn't pruned yet.
>
> ==============================================================
>
> +dio_short_writes:
> +
> +In case Direct I/O encounters an transient error, it returns
a transient
> +the errorcode, even if it has performed part of the write.
error code,
> +This flag, if on (default), will return the number of bytes written
> +so far, as the write(2) symantics are. However, some older applications
semantics
> +still consider a direct write as an error if all of the I/O
> +submitted is not complete. ie write(file, count, buf) != count.
I.e.
> +This option can be disabled on systems in order to support
> +existing applications which do not expect short writes.
and if my system has a mix of older applications and new ones,
will they all work just fine?
thanks,
--
~Randy
