The following reply was made to PR kern/33406; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/33406: softdeps get stuck in endless loop
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 11:02:22 +0900

 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 >         The easiest way I've found to reproduce the problem is to use
 >         the following recipe.  Sometimes more than one invocation of
 >         lat_fs may be needed.
 > 
 >         newfs -I -i 524288 /dev/rwd0d
 >         mount -o softdep -t ffs /dev/wd0d /mnt
 > 	cd /mnt
 > 	.../lmbench/bin/.../lat_fs
 
 your /dev is not ffs?
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi