On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 01:41:59AM -0400, John Franklin wrote:
> I've noticed this before.  It's not an I/O order issue.  I had a root 
> partition that was close to full and copying a new kernel into it would 
> fail the first time but succeed the second (since the old kernel had 
> been deleted by the previous failed copy.)  Turning off softdeps "fixed" 
> the problem.

Ah, okay. the partition in question is only used for crash dumping, so I
don't need softdeps. Thanks.

-Sean

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