On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 02:13:53AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 06:57:40PM -0600, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: > > From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <[email protected]> > > > > 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. > > > > This fixes fstest generic/472. > > OK... I can live with that. What about the XFS side? It should be > a prereq, to avoid bisection hazard; I can throw both into vfs.git, > if XFS folks are OK with that. Objections?
Going through the VFS tree seesm the best approach to me - it's a trivial change. I'm sure Darrick will shout if it's going to be a problem, though. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner [email protected]
