Comment 64 for bug 561210

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.