during the FS sync. The system would appear to hang momentarily
if there was a large backlog of I/O. This is because the vnode
remains locked during the output - preventing normal character
I/O. The problem was exacerbated by the FFS contiguous block
allocation fixes and a semi-broken disksort(). The inode/date
will still be synced during a normal FS dismount and whenever
the inode is changed for other reasons.