Comment 109 for bug 525154

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 525154] Re: mountall for /var or other nfs mount races with rpc.statd

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 05:38:51PM -0000, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On 11-07-17 04:59 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Brian, in comment #84 you said that the SRUed package fixed the issue
> > for you, but in your latest post you comment that "this bug has existed
> > since Lucid". Did the updated package fix your issue, or did it not?
> > If it didn't, we should reopen this bug report; up to then, you had
> > certainly given the impression that your bug was fixed.

> Yeah. I would say that it has. I guess it must just be all of the
> other problems in Lucid (and beyond) that have not been fixed (i.e. all
> of the bugs related to /var being on it's own filesystem that are still
> open and dangling) that are clouding my judgment in this bug.

Oh. Can you give me some specific bug numbers there? I wasn't aware of any
other issues with /var as a separate filesystem, and based on the
architecture I really wouldn't *expect* any bugs not related to NFS. So if
there are other problems, I'd very much like to know what they are so we can
see about getting them fixed.

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