Hi, So I've split and ported ordered mode rewrite for ext4+jbd2. The core of the rewrite are two patches jbd2-Implement-data-ordered-mode-handling-via-inode.patch ext4-Use-new-framework-for-data-ordered-mode-in-JBD.patch They also need two trivial fixes: vfs-export-filemap_fdatawrite_range.patch ext4-Use-new-framework-for-data-ordered-mode-in-JBD.patch And finally there's a patch removing old ordered mode from jbd2: jbd2-Remove-data-ordered-mode-support-using-jbd-buf.patch I've created the patches to be added to the ext4 patch queue just after inversion of page lock and transaction start. I have refreshed the following patches in the ext4 queue to apply cleanly and also fixed some typos in them and added one BUG_ON(): ext4-delalloc-sync-hang-with-journal-lock-inverse-fix.patch ext4-delalloc-inverse-jbd-and-page-lock-ordering.patch ext4-inverse-jbd-and-page-locking-order.patch Finally, I've rewritten checks in writepage so ext4-Add-validation-to-jbd-lock-inversion-patch-and.patch should be replaced with ext4-add-checks-to-writepage as we spoke about it with Aneesh. All the patches are attached and I'll also post the new ones separately for more convenient review. The tests for 4k blocksize run fine for me. The kernel oopses for 1k blocksize because of a problem in ext4_page_mkwrite() - I'll post that in a separate mail. If noone objects, patches can be added to ext4 patch queue. Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR