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On 26 Oct, Pavel Merdine wrote:

> Sorry, I didn't explain my point thoroughly. I meant non-working
> softupdates on non-faulty hardware. Press "Reset" on busy server with
> many drives, mount -f (softupdates mount?) and you will surely get a
> panic in an hour.

mount -f does not enable softupdates.  The mount(8) man page says:

     -f      Forces the revocation of write access when trying to downgrade a
             filesystem mount status from read-write to read-only.  Also
             forces the R/W mount of an unclean filesystem (dangerous; use
             with caution).

In this case, dangerous means that further file system damage and/or a
system panic can happen.


Softupdates is enabled and disabled with
	tunefs -n enable
and
	tunefs -n disable
on an unmounted file system.