These days we always have buffers thanks to ->page_mkwrite. And we already have an assert a few lines above tripping in case that was not true due to a bug. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: xfs-dev/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c =================================================================== --- xfs-dev.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c 2010-06-28 11:59:29.590253914 +0200 +++ xfs-dev/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c 2010-06-28 11:59:48.341006462 +0200 @@ -1072,13 +1072,6 @@ xfs_vm_writepage( if ((current->flags & PF_FSTRANS) && (delalloc || unwritten)) goto out_fail; - /* - * Delay hooking up buffer heads until we have - * made our go/no-go decision. - */ - if (!page_has_buffers(page)) - create_empty_buffers(page, 1 << inode->i_blkbits, 0); - /* Is this page beyond the end of the file? */ offset = i_size_read(inode); end_index = offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs