diff --git a/ceph-ruby.gemspec b/ceph-ruby.gemspec
index 2a18f5c..58a960c 100644
--- a/ceph-ruby.gemspec
+++ b/ceph-ruby.gemspec
@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
   gem.test_files    = gem.files.grep(%r{^(test|spec|features)/})
   gem.require_paths = ["lib"]
 
-  gem.add_dependency('ffi', '~> 1.1.5')
+  gem.add_dependency('ffi', '~> 1.9.10')
   gem.add_dependency('activesupport', '>= 3.0.0')
 end
diff --git a/lib/ceph-ruby/rados_object.rb b/lib/ceph-ruby/rados_object.rb
index 405b067..8e9207b 100644
--- a/lib/ceph-ruby/rados_object.rb
+++ b/lib/ceph-ruby/rados_object.rb
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ def write(offset, data)
       log("write offset #{offset}, size #{size}")
       ret = Lib::Rados.rados_write(pool.handle, name, data, size, offset)
       raise SystemCallError.new("write of #{size} bytes to '#{name}' at #{offset} failed", -ret) if ret < 0
-      raise Errno::EIO.new("wrote only #{ret} of #{size} bytes to '#{name}' at #{offset}") if ret < size
     end
 
     def read(offset, size)
diff --git a/lib/ceph-ruby/version.rb b/lib/ceph-ruby/version.rb
index 4c7d9ba..793dbb6 100644
--- a/lib/ceph-ruby/version.rb
+++ b/lib/ceph-ruby/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module CephRuby
-  VERSION = "1.1"
+  VERSION = "1.3"
 end