I haven't isolated which file won't compile correctly yet, but by replacing
all my .o's in the compile directory, I can build a kernel that doesn't
have the file system update problem. (upgrading to gcc-2.6.3 didn't fix
the problem. Neither did compiling everything without -O. I suspect there
is a missing volatile declaration somewhere, although these usually go away
when you compile without -O?)

My user land problem was also something wrong when building the libc.a.
(When I link to an older libc.a built from a mix of NetBSD-1.0 and 4.4BSD-Lite
 sources, the problem goes away.:-)

I ignored these for a while and played with bootstrapping, rick