"Tim" wrote : Why would you need to update the file on disk? If you update in memory, then the files get deleted, so they won't get reloaded... What am I missing here? Take my initial example in consideration: | f1: A1, A2 (A2 won't be deleted for a while) | | f2: D1, A3, A4 | | f3: D3, D4 A5 A6 | | f4: D5, D6, A7, a8 | | f5: d7, d8, A9, A10 | .... | | f1000: d998, d999, a1000, a1001 | | You have 1000 hanging on A2. So what I need to do on the above example is to phisically update f1, so f1 will be: f1: A2 (There is no more A1 on the file). And remove the memory dependency between f1 and f2. After I do that, 999 files will be reclaimed or deleted. If I don't update F1, during reload A1 would appear back, as the delete file is gone. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4209159#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...