[H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade

[David Jericho]

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On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 08:49:42PM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> | My personal experience is that telling software not to cross mount
> | points is quirky. It works sometimes, and not others. 
> 
> Can you give examples of this quirk (bug, actually)?

Well, there is the problem. It's quirky[1]. When I've been busy trying to
use it, it's failed on occasion, and when I finally do remember to go
check out what I did wrong, I can't spot what I did wrong (even when
looking through the shell history). 

So while the function may actually work 100% correctly and the error
being operator induced, when I was using it didn't behave as I expect,
and it was more critical to get things working, rather than being
elegant in my immediate solution.

I haven't actually bothered with the don't cross FS option for quite
some time because of this possible incompatability between brain and
OS, so I'll have to give it a good play sometime soon to see if I can
replicate the problems.

[1] Quirky doesn't mean it doesn't work. It means the brain hasn't
spent enough time wrapping itself around it.

-- 
David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Bytecomm Pty Ltd


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