System V kernel panic not syncing

[Guy Harris]

>Wait a second... This doesn't make sense.

It may not make sense, but nevertheless it's worked quite fine, in my
experience, for the past 6 years or so on various systems.  At least
in the panics I've seen, the file system data structures in core, etc.
aren't what's screwed up, so syncing the file system caused no problems.

>For any degree of system stability you need to fsck and "take your
>medecine"...

Yes, the "sync" isn't intended as something to make "fsck"s unnecessary,
it's just intended to limit the lossage from a crash.