[Bug 561210] Re: Writing big files to NFS target causes system lock up

[BlueBuntu]

I just received an email titled "Ubuntu 9.04 reaches end-of-life on
October 23, 2010" on the Ubuntu Security mailing list. 9.04 is the most
recent version of Ubuntu that does not exhibit the NFS locking symptom
as described in this bug (I have experienced this bug with both Lucid
and Maverick kernels, I believe other people have reported Karmic
kernels exhibiting the same behavior). As a result I respectfully
request that the priority of this bug be raised since we now have one
month (to the day) before people in our situation have to abandon using
Ubuntu or keep using a distro (Jaunty) that will not be supported.

I have been a big admirer of the Ubuntu development team and have had
nothing but the best to say about Ubuntu for the past two years. During
that time I have been promoting the use of Ubuntu, to both friends and
colleagues, having helped deploy it to many desktops and servers.
However, I have to say I am really disappointed that this bug has been
around since April (5 months now), and no progress has been made. NFS is
a major feature and without it how can Ubuntu expect to be taken
seriously for use in anything other than on a home PC or laptop?

On a side note, can anyone report any successes with other distros using
recent (2.6.3x) kernels? I ask this primarily to help research how (and
if) other distros are getting around this problem, in addition to
looking for alternatives should the bug still exist when Ubuntu pulls
the plug on Jaunty.

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Writing big files to NFS target causes system lock up
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/561210
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