Michael Kukat wrote:

> Ah, i see... On my VAX, i really never had problems with "the usual stress",
> including kinda "rm -fr pkgsrc". I just saw this problem on i386 with 1.5.2
> when removing pkgsrc on 2 softdep-filesystems. As i didn't like the 1 hour RAID
> rebuild and 2 hours fsck, i now do "cd pkgsrc;for i in *; do rm -fr $i; sync;
> done" :)

Why don't you just disable softdeps permanently and temporarily mount -u 
-o async the filesystem during the time you do metadata-heavy operations 
(like removing pkgsrc)?  It's as fast and probably a lot less risky than 
running with softdeps enabled (on vax).


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Matthias Buelow