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Re: daemons -- who needs'em?



On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 11:31:07AM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
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> >     4 ?        SW     0:00 [md_thread]
> >     5 ?        SW     0:00 [md_thread]
> You probably don't need these two. They're auto-mounter threads AFAIR

Actually they're Multiple Device driver threads (Concat, RAID0, RAID1,
RAID 4/5 in software).  If you're not using /dev/md? devices you don't
need these processes, but they will run as they're compiled into the
kernel.  [ So compile a new kernel :) ]

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