on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 11:32:10PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 8:53 PM +0000 11/5/01, xs@nitric.net wrote:
> >  Not afaik. softdep in fstab, then remounting the filesystem should be
> >  enough.
> 
> 	Uh, this directly contravenes the manner in which Kirk 
> specifically requested that softupdates be implemented.  He 
> specifically wanted to avoid the "yet another mount option" issue. 
> Did anyone bother talking to Kirk before implementing this?

I do not know. But NetBSD is not the only BSD doing it with a mount option:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#14.5

Where did Kirk say he didn't wish it to be implemented in this fashion?