> > That's the kind of comment that leads me to take bug reports less > > seriously in the future... diagnostic logs which would have solved > > the problem, will have been lost INTENTIONALLY. And then we get > > asked for help? Crazy. > > > > Thank you for that information; The impression I got about softdep was > that it guarantees file system integrity so fsck is not needed.
"file system integrity" refers to the directory-tree heirarchy. Not the contents of files. When softdep is in use, blocks go to the disk slower. Therefore if you crash, you have less context. Doing this with important log files is entirely backwards.