Re: Stopping the GC thread?

David Woodhouse
2003-06-11T16:06:47Z

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 17:03, Steven Scholz wrote:
> Is it safe to just do a
>
> ~ # kill -s SIGSTOP `pidof jffs2_gcd_mtd0`
>
> even if my root fs is on this JFFS2 partition?

Yes.

> (I just tried it now and it seems to work. But IIRC a while ago my
> system hung when I did something like that...)

It shouldn't. The GC thread remains strictly an optimisation (and
doesn't exist in the eCos port, etc.)

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