In message <200001280806.DAA00359@zippy.bernstein.com>, maximum entropy writes:
>If tunefs can't really turn off softdeps on the partition while it's
>mounted readonly, shouldn't it report an error, instead of seeming to
>succeed, even to the point that verifying it was disabled with "tunefs
>-N" says that it was successful until the partition is mounted rw?

Well, I certainly got an error trying to turn them *on* on root_device.

-s