Comment 5 for bug 525154

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: mountall for /var races with rpc.statd

> I'm not sure exactly what "local-filesystems" signal is signalling but
> assuming it really does mean "local" (i.e. directly attached block
> devices) is there any reason the boolean operator in the condition for
> starting statd is not "and" rather than "or"?

Because due to a bug in upstart, this would cause every NFS mount after the first one to block indefinitely, waiting for another 'started portmap' event that will never come.

Anyway, as you're aware, portmap no longer waits for local-filesystems; so that's no longer a guarantee.