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On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:55:45AM +0100, Steven Scholz wrote:
> what would be the impact if I disabled the GC thread on my embedded system?
> 
> I use an JFFS2 partition as root fs. But usually only write to it on 
> firmware update...

Could you just mount it r/o? 

Robert
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