In message <20000616004322.A27264@wins.uva.nl>, Frank van der Linden writes:
>I have changed the way that soft dependencies are enabled and disabled.
>This is now done via a mount option (-o softdep). It can no longer
>be done via tunefs, after you have recompiled it.

This is really cool, but one question:

>	1) compile a new kernel
>	2) boot it single user
>	3) use the old tunefs to disable soft dependencies on any
>	   filesystem you may have set it

Why is this necessary?

>Note that you currently can not use -o softdep with the -u flag if
>you are doing a mount update on a writeable filesystem. This has to
>do with how the softdep code is structured. This might be fixed
>in a future release of NetBSD.

Hmm.  As I understand it, fsck may need to know whether a filesystem was
mounted with or without softdeps to make the best possible decisions.  Is
this not the case?

-s