maximum entropy writes:


>>From: maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com>
>>
>>root       215 12.0  0.8   112  112 D0  R+   12:37PM    0:00.22 grep xfs 
>>root       185  0.0  6.4  1004  904 D0- I    12:31PM    0:05.14 xfs 
>>
>>The only thing that looks vaguely suspicious to me is that xfs's
>>controlling terminal was revoked.
>
>And it looks like that's a key point.  If I run this small program
>instead of "xfs $xfs_flags &" from /etc/rc, everything works OK.

That sounds very plausible. 

I still don't understand why xfs seems to work just for me just fine
with an X server started by xdm, though.