Cheers charles.

I am going through the yaffs code from git now so that is making more sense.



On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Charles Manning
<manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>wrote:

> On Monday 27 June 2011 15:32:52 Peter Pilley wrote:
> > Everyone on List
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> > What are the differences between
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> > __u8 deleted: 1;              // This should only apply to unlinked
> files.
> > __u8 softDeleted: 1;  // it has also been soft deleted
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> This is described in HowYaffsWorks.pdf.
> Soft deletion is only used in yaffs1 mode.
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> > These have been described in yaffs_guts.h
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> > would there values only possibly be 0x01 or 0x00?
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> Yes, that is what C bitfields mean.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_field
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> > yaffs_guts suggests they appear in the oob area but I cannot see
> > anything like this however I am still trying to identify what flags
> > say it is a live file or data_chunk
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> They are not in the oob area. What makes you say that this is suggested?
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> -- Charles
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