* Frank van der Linden (frank@wins.uva.nl) [000621 07:08]:
| > >	3) use the old tunefs to disable soft dependencies on any
| > >	   filesystem you may have set it
| > Why is this necessary?
| 
| Just to be consistent and safe, really. [...]
| 
| Correct. Which is why the softdep flag is still written in the superblock
| if you mount it with -o softdep, and cleared when it is unmounted. So,

Umm, shouldn't that make the tunefs usage unnecessary? When the 
unmounting of the filesystem clears the flag, that should be
enough. Or did I get something wrong here?

Bye,
Bjoern

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