Stopping the GC thread?

[David Woodhouse]

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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dwmw2