ext4_writepage currently has a and else case after the page_has_buffers() check where it does I/O if there are no buffers attached. But given how ext4 uses a write_begin method that always creates buffer, the normal set_page_dirty which creates buffers and a ->page_mkwrite that creates buffers I just can't see how that case can happen at all. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html