> Of course, I tried to reproduce the problem last night on a couple of
> test boxes (stressing RAIDframe on one and softdeps on the other), 
> and couldn't get anything to crash at all :(  I couldn't even get a 
> base-case established for the problem.. :(

I had this deadlock today, on a 1.6ZK, ufs+softdeps, during
compilation of GNOME (Nautilus, being more precise). I don't know how
to repeat this problem, I compiled a lot of pkgsrc software, and it
didn't crashed the system. I'll try to apply these patches later.

Best regards
Tomasz Marciniak