diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 42d9726f8f6b..f44628236875 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 99bdc3880c611c7f2061fbd5372ef81b40217e26
+refs/heads/master: 272b62c1f0f6f742046e45b50b6fec98860208a0
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/aops.c b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
index 0d44b7701844..b5d7fb9ab1f3 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
@@ -1015,6 +1015,12 @@ static int ocfs2_prepare_page_for_write(struct inode *inode, u64 *p_blkno,
 	ocfs2_figure_cluster_boundaries(OCFS2_SB(inode->i_sb), cpos,
 					&cluster_start, &cluster_end);
 
+	/* treat the write as new if the a hole/lseek spanned across
+	 * the page boundary.
+	 */
+	new = new | ((i_size_read(inode) <= page_offset(page)) &&
+			(page_offset(page) <= user_pos));
+
 	if (page == wc->w_target_page) {
 		map_from = user_pos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
 		map_to = map_from + user_len;