On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 06:38:28AM -0400, Robert Schaefer wrote:
> >A few times during the copy, the system froze completely and then
> >woke up again.  When this happens, the system does not respond to
> >ping, it doesn't update the systat display or do anything visible.
> >During the copy, over 40 ping packets were lost.
> 
> Are softdeps turned on for the local mountpoints you are using? This sounds 
> like what I and a few other were experiencing, see 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2006/07/22/0007.html for an 
> explanation of what's going on. Unfortunantly, it sounds like the solution 
> is to turn off softdeps.  :(  I'm going to look at LFS as soon as I find 
> some spare time.

I have softdeps enabled on some partitions, but not on the partition
I was writing to:

/dev/raid0i on /backup type ffs (local)

  -jm