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--- Comment #22 from Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> ---
Earlier this month, I had a quite different test case with these criteria:=
=20

a) soft updates disabled

b) sync _not_ set in /etc/fstab

Following interruption whilst installing a package, or packages, the base
system was broken in that things such as /bin/sh and /sbin/fsck were unusab=
le
in single user mode (and so, no automated check). Whilst subsequent repairs
yielded a file system that was marked clean, the base system remained
essentially unusable.=20

Please: should I open a separate bug for this? Or is breakage a (rare but
explicable) possibility with the combination of those two criteria?

----

man 8 mount

> =E2=80=A6
> noasync
>   Metadata I/O should be done synchronously, while data I/O
>   should be done asynchronously.  This is the default.
> =E2=80=A6

<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/config/#_more_details_about_sof=
t_updates>
mentions "=E2=80=A6 no guarantee for a consistent state of the file system =
If there is
a failure during an operation that updated large amounts of meta-data, =E2=
=80=A6"=20

* in the context of    async
* but not in the context of    noasync

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