Is it normal to have a defunct jffs2_gcd_mtd1 process?

[Mike Kelly]

--- David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 15:40, Mike Kelly wrote:
> > When I do a 'ps' command I get the following
> (partial
> > list):
> > 
> > PID  TTY  TIME     CMD
> >  8    ?   00:00:00 jffs2_gcd_mtd1 (defunct)
> > 12    ?   00:00:00 jffs2_gcd_mtd1
> > 
> > Is it normal to have a defunct jffs2 garbage
> > collection process?  Or should I be concerned?
> 
> It's fine -- when you remount the old one gets
> killed and a new one gets
> restarted. Although this looks like you're starting
> off with a
> read/write file system and then remounting it
> read/write -- which is a
> little unnecessary :)
> 
> The fact that it remains defunct is probably an init
> bug.
> 
> -- 
> dwmw2
> 
I wasn't aware that I was mounting it twice.  I have
"root=/dev/mtdblock1 rw" in the default string for the
command line options (I am using MontaVista's TCT gui
program for configuring and building the kernel). 
Where else might I be mounting it?

Thanks,
Mike

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