Hi yaffsers There was a problem whereby negative hash values could get generated. The way that the crash was manifesting was that a negative tags objectId (impossible, except by major tags corruption) would create a negative hash array index. Not a good thing, since it would try treat other memory at doubly linked lists. This problem would only occur if the tags got seriously corrupted at the mtd/flash level, so if you were encountering this one, you'd probably be getting data loss too. At least now the crash does not happen. The simple one-liner solution is to just abs() the objectId in the hash function. I have committed a change to CVS for both yaffs and yaffs2. -- CHarles