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> Well, the reason why I wanted to use LFS on my /usr is that I wanted to
> avoid fsck's, which take a while on my 360 GB fs.  BTW, do I have to do
> anything special to enable softdep under NetBSD, or does it work by
> default?  (I am a mainframe guy...  don't know *that* much about NetBSD).

softdep=try to to delayed write but still keep writing sequence that it
won't leave filesystem inconsistent.

with LFS it doesn't make sense as it's always writes full linear blocks -
so it have "softdeps by design"