>Number:         18343
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       sysinst does not enable softdep
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 20 00:41:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Martin Husemann
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD night-porter.duskware.de 1.6G NetBSD 1.6G (PORTER) #0: Sun Sep 1 22:14:34 MEST 2002 martin@night-porter.duskware.de:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/PORTER i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

I just installed NetBSD 1.6 on two sparc64 machines. After a few days of 
moaning about the ***** disk performance I found out /etc/fstab was missing
the softdep option.

I added it, rebooted, and performance was great.

>How-To-Repeat:

fgrep softdep in sysinst sources

>Fix:
Either softdep should be enabled by default, or the user should be queried
if it is to be enabled. I personally wouldn't bother to ask, but maybe others
like the more conservative aproach (and the option to install without 
softdeps).

Enabling softdeps during the installation would probably speed thinks up a
bit too, but that is something completely different.
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