Why does the system panic on boot when the '/' filesystem has dirsync mount option set?

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Issue

On a system with the dirsync mount option set on the / file system in /etc/fstab, after updating to a later kernel, errors are reported during boot, and the system panics.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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