In message <42D59151.7060406@iinet.net.au>, James Buchanan writes:
>Matthias Scheler wrote:
>> Soft dependences are a performance kludge in UFS which allows it to
>> work more asynchronously without risking data integrity. They don't
>> provide the protection against unclean system shutdown that a
>> journaling file system does.
>
>Time to get rid of soft updates. :)

No.  They're better than what we have without them.

-s