Kernel process md

[jd1008]

On 02/08/2015 02:42 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 08Feb2015 11:40, jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why do I have md running when I do not have any raid storage?
>> root        32     2  0 09:35 ?        00:00:00 [md]
>
> It's just a thread, presumably idle. Probably gets started at boot 
> rather than on demand, so if it wasn't there you wouldn't be able to 
> make new md devices.  Just conjecture.
>
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
Would you say the same about the kernel thread ksmd?
ps -ef shows it running, and using 0 time.

root        25     2  0 15:58 ?        00:00:00 [ksmd]