On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Karsten Kruse wrote:

> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
> >>is there any reason why softdep is not activated after a new installation
> >>by default?
>
> >>I use it for years (since 1.6 iirc) and it worked flawless for me. My
> >>system fsck's after powerfailure, but i never lost anything or had to
> >>repair a filesystem since i use it.
>
> > Obviously it's not enough that it works for you.
> > On a VAX, you're lucky if the system lives 10 minutes before it
> > crash. And that is still true in -current.
>
> I'm sorry to hear that.

Me too. :-)

> But i don't see why it should not be possible to change sysinst to use
> softdep on the ports where it is expected to work.

True. But why does it not work on the VAX? Is it something specific to
that port, or is it just that there is a general bug that is easily
triggered on the VAX, but exist on all platforms?

	Johnny

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