> Does anyone have soft updates working on their NetBSD/alpha filesystems?  
> I made a 1.4X (-current) kernel in which I enabled "options SOFTDEP",
> but when I enabled soft updates on a FFS filesystem running that kernel,
> the machine did a panic and reboot at the first write to that
> filesystem.
> 
Was your panic something like

panic: softdep_flushfiles called

or so? In that case you didn't have the src/gnu source tree unpacked when
you compiled your kernel.

-- Ragge