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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:38:47AM +1000 I heard the voice of
> David Cecil, and lo! it spake thus:
>>
>> One more point to address Julian's question, the partition is not
>> mounted with soft updates.
>
> If it were, you'd probably see different errors like
> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=117716> (which I've been
> doing syncing and waiting before remount to try to avoid triggering
> for the last year or so).

Oops, this PR was sitting in my mailbox.

Duplicating the problem can be simplified to
"[make a disposable file system with soft updates and mount it rw on /mnt];
touch /mnt/foo; mount -u -o ro /foo".

I haven't been able to duplicate a problem without soft updates.

Bruce