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diff --git a/support/mnt-excl b/support/mnt-excl
index 63d0ad9b..c6df5866 100755
--- a/support/mnt-excl
+++ b/support/mnt-excl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#!/usr/bin/perl
 # This script takes a command-line arg of a source directory
 # that will be passed to rsync, and generates a set of excludes
 # that will exclude all mount points from the list.  This is
@@ -16,8 +16,16 @@
 #
 # NOTE:  This script expects /proc/mounts to exist, but could be
 # easily adapted to read /etc/mtab or similar.
+#
+# ADDENDUM:  The addition of the --filter option (which has support for
+# absolute-anchored excludes) has made this script less useful than it
+# was.  Beginning with 2.6.4, you can achieve the effect of this script
+# through this command:
+#
+# awk '{print $2}' /proc/mounts | rsync -f 'merge,/- -' host:/dir /dest/
 
 use strict;
+use warnings;
 use Cwd 'abs_path';
 
 my $file = '/proc/mounts';