RE: [Yaffs] Soft delete messages

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

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