On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 12:59:48PM -0600, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx>
>
> In case direct I/O encounters an error midway, it returns the error.
> Instead it should be returning the number of bytes transferred so far.
>
> Test case for filesystems (with ENOSPC):
> 1. Create an almost full filesystem
> 2. Create a file, say /mnt/lastfile, until the filesystem is full.
> 3. Direct write() with count > sizeof /mnt/lastfile.
>
> Result: write() returns -ENOSPC. However, file content has data written
> in step 3.
>
> Added a sysctl entry: dio_short_writes which is on by default. This is
> to support applications which expect either and error or the bytes submitted
> as a return value for the write calls.
>
> This fixes fstest generic/472.
>
> Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx>
Hi,
I was wondering if you could give an update regarding what's up with
this patch?
There doesn't seem to be any movement on this patch in a while, and so
I still have xfstests generic/472 suppressed in {kvm,gce}-xfstests.
Thanks,
- Ted
