Is it normal to have a defunct jffs2_gcd_mtd1 process?

[David Woodhouse]

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.

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dwmw2