>> Does anyone know why, when unmounting a YAFFS partition, after reading
>> from it, I get the following messages?
>>
>> yaffs block 250 gc prioritised
>> yaffs block 251 gc prioritised
>
> These messages are just debug/tracing messages that were added during 
> recent
> changes to support better retirement handling.
>
> If you are getting many of these, then you might have some issues with 
> ecc or
> similar.
>

Ok, this is a little scary...  How do we investigate this further?

> A block that is prioritised for gc has some sort of error on it and we 
> keep
> this state over unmount/mount cycles with checkpointing.
>
> The messages are just there to show that this was remembered correctly.
>>
>> These messages are generated from a recent YAFFS, CVS checkout. They 
>> do
>> not appear to be a problem but it does slow the performance while
>> umounting.
>
> This  only slows things by the addition of the messages.

True, but messages are normally off unless you want to enable them or 
they are important!

Allen