Re: [PATCH 12/12] ext4: Fix ext4_writepage() to achieve data=ordered guarantees

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 01:00:46PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> So far ext4_writepage() skipped writing pages that had any delayed or
> unwritten buffers attached. When blocksize < pagesize this breaks
> data=ordered mode guarantees as we can have a page with one freshly
> allocated buffer whose allocation is part of the committing transaction
> and another buffer in the page which is delayed or unwritten. So fix this
> problem by calling ext4_bio_writepage() anyway. It will submit mapped
> buffers and leave others alone.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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