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Dear Michael,

> 
> Actually, it had never occurred to me that soft-updates was a 
> property of a 
> file-system and not a global flag in the kernel.  That is why 
> I suggested a more prominent note about soft-updates.
>
Until you suggested it, it never ocurred to me that it could be anything but
a per-filesystem property. When you run the 4.3 /stand/sysinstall it
specifically allows you to change soft-updates setting per filesystem.

I would oppose dmesg output on soft-updates enabling, because it does not
say "mounting /usr, mounting /var" either. How do I know my MFS /tmp is
mounted? How do I even know that /usr/local is mounted? Simple: by typing
"mount", which, conveniently, also tells me about mount options such as
soft-updates.

As a counter-proposal, the soft-updates option should be made a mount option
(which it is going to be IIRC), and described in the mount manual page.
Maybe the GENERIC and LINT kernels could have a text reading "man mount for
more info".

    Kees Jan

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