And Twitter search says that I did indeed learn basically this lesson before: https://twitter.com/thatcks/status/198443974506184705 … (this time: total fileserver lockup)
Current status: that sinking feeling that I just relearned a lesson that I already knew, and the evidence for which is in my tweet stream.
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Chris Siebenmann