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> Although it was definitely a bug (ie. unintended code flow), I would have
> expected this to be benign because a file is resized to zero before it is
> deleted, meaning that there should not be any chunks to be soft deleted.

As far as I remember, the task that takes the time during file removal is 
resizing to zero. The unclean reset always occurs during resizing. 
Deletion takes no time basicly.

Maybe that helps.

>
> I'm still going to investigate a bit further because I'm still scratching my
> head a bit here as to why that should happen on yaffs2 partitions.

BR,
Viktor