Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] Return bytes transferred for partial direct I/O

["Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 12:59:48PM -0600, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
> 
> 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@suse.com>

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