On Tue, 01 Oct 2002, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > This sounds like the problem I described in PR 17128.  As far as I
> > can tell, there's been no progress in fixing it.
> 
> It looks like PR kern/17128 describes the same problems as PR kern/17321.
> You might try this patch which I got from Chuck Silvers:

Thanks.  I didn't realise that PR 173231 had anything to do with MFS.

> RCS file: /cvsroot/syssrc/sys/ufs/mfs/mfs_vfsops.c,v
> +       /* XXX suggested fix for PR kern/17321 by Chuck Silvers. */
> +       mp->mnt_flag |= MNT_SYNCHRONOUS;

I tried to set that flag by passing the "sync" option to mount_mfs
instead of rebuilding the kernel, but:

	mount_mfs: -o sync: option not supported

--apb (Alan Barrett)