Comment 105 for bug 525154

On 11-07-01 02:52 PM, Forest wrote:
> Following up on my own question: I don't see any updated mountall or
> nfs package in natty-proposed, and my fully-updated natty system still
> is still failing to mount my nfs shares at boot because of a race with
> statd.

My advise here would be either (a) give up on running a /var that's
separate from / and just learn to cope with a system that becomes
entirely useless at some point because something writing into /var has
filled your root filesystem or (b) switch to a different distro that
actually pays attention to "server deployment" practices wherein
separating /var from / (and /usr for that matter) is an accepted and
supported practice.

Given that this bug has existed since Lucid (3 releases now) makes it
clear to me that Ubuntu is not at all interested in supporting server
deployments where responsible practice is to keep /var from being able
to cripple an entire system simply because it fills up.

I guess Ubuntu is targeting the desktop and if you want to deploy
servers (where you likely will have budgets for support contracts) you
need to look at a different distro.

Just my perspective having watched this bug stagnate through three releases.