Philip Guenther on Tue, May 24 2022:
> The reason OpenBSD paniced in this case instead of just failing the 
> specific involved operation is that you were using softdeps: there are 
> cases where softdeps can delay an operation to a point where the write out 
> for other operations depend on it such that if the I/O for that first 
> operation fails, the dependent operations cannot be undone and the failure 
> propagated up safely.

I did not expect that! Thanks a lot for the accurate explanation.

-p

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