Farhan If you don't want the messages, then turn them off in the trace mask. The rationale behind soft deletion is that the space allocated to a file is identified as being "deletable" and the actual final deletion is deferred to the garbage collection processing. The alternative (ie. Immediate deletion) would mean that deleting a file would take some time as each chunk of flash would have to be marked as deleted. Soft deletion is therefore your friend. -- Charles -----Original Message----- From: yaffs-admin@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk [mailto:yaffs-admin@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk] On Behalf Of fali@sfu.ca Sent: Wednesday, 25 August 2004 7:08 a.m. To: yaffs@lists.aleph1.co.uk Subject: [Yaffs] Soft delete messages Hi All, I just finished porting Yaffs to VxWorks. I have a question regarding file deletion. When I delete a file I see a lot of these : 'soft delete tch 5303 cgb 0 chunk 5303' Messages appear on the screen. When I reboot my board, these messages appear again. For a large file a lot of these are generated, is there a way around soft deletion? Can you just hard delete these chunks and blocks? thanks Farhan _______________________________________________ yaffs mailing list yaffs@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk http://stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yaffs