On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 12:59:48PM -0600, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:

From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <redacted>

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 <redacted>

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