Comment # 1 on bug 1217885 from Neil Brown

Why are we even running rpc.statd from the initrd - that doesn't make a lot of
sense.

What filesystem is being mounted?  Presumably a root filesystem?
Is this root filesystem shared with other clients?  If so do all the clients
treat as read-only?

If the filesystem mounted is never shared, or if it is only accessed read-only.
then we don't need NFS locking, and so don't need rpc.statd.

Possibly the problem is that NFS is starting rpc.statd when it doesn't need to.