FIXME: is this still needed?

---
 daemons/runsystem.sh |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/daemons/runsystem.sh
+++ b/daemons/runsystem.sh
@@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ esac
 esac
 
 # This is necessary to make stat / return the correct device ids.
+# Work around a race condition (probably in the root translator).
+for i in `seq 1 100000` ; do : ; done
+
 fsysopts / --update --readonly
 
 # Finally, start the actual SysV init.
