As peculiar as it sounds, I don't like the automatic mounting andunmounting of NFS filesystems. I don't have unreliable NFS fileserversand I don't like the various side effects of not having everythingmounted; pretty much the only thing it seems good for is making oursystems slower and more fragile.

However, one thing that the automounter is good for is maintaininga nice, organized list of NFS mounts in a format that can be easilydistributed around without problems, and even automatically gettingit right

I think that part of the issue with volatile is that it can beused for at least three different things:

1. stuff that can change behind the compiler's back (eg flags set ina signal handler), where mostly you need the compiler to not cachevalues loaded from volatile variables.
2. hardware registers, where reads and writes have side effects, soyou need the compiler to do all loads, even apparently pointlessones (as John Mashey and MIPS found out in the early ages ofoptimizing compilers being used on

For some reason, rpm in Fedora Core 6 (and I believe Fedora Core 5 too)has become overly twitchy about replacing configuration files; a lot ofthe time it will write .rpmnew files instead of just replacing the oldversion of the file even if the old file is unchanged and the new andthe old file are completely identical.

While I think this is multiarch stuff in action, I still have toclean it up every so often. I use a little scriptlet for this,usually typed at the command