On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Mike Cheponis wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>
> > Yes, and there are several PR's open on it. For me, it was the
> > experience of moving some large directory trees around after
> > installing a new 60gb disk that finally convinced me to turn softdeps
> > off forever.
>
> How did the buggy softdeps get into an official release?

It's an option. "We give you enough rope to hang yourself."

To be fair, I used it for nearly a year with out any evident problems.

Frederick