diff --git a/core/src/db/DBImpl.cpp b/core/src/db/DBImpl.cpp
index c5e04fb5c6dd9d365485e930a3446a57e27a8f82..b51ce571fdffd6927e429540c70abfa8f3a0de26 100644
--- a/core/src/db/DBImpl.cpp
+++ b/core/src/db/DBImpl.cpp
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ DBImpl::BackgroundCompaction(std::set<std::string> table_ids) {
     meta_ptr_->Archive();
 
     {
-        uint64_t ttl = 1 * meta::SECOND;  // default: file will be deleted after few seconds
+        uint64_t ttl = 10 * meta::SECOND;  // default: file will be hard-deleted few seconds after soft-deleted
         if (options_.mode_ == DBOptions::MODE::CLUSTER_WRITABLE) {
             ttl = meta::H_SEC;
         }
diff --git a/core/src/db/meta/MySQLMetaImpl.cpp b/core/src/db/meta/MySQLMetaImpl.cpp
index 96e7109c9336453db2f23cd4ffabef396e0fedfb..401ef62bbded6890eb683fbc8d3d75683b7bbd9f 100644
--- a/core/src/db/meta/MySQLMetaImpl.cpp
+++ b/core/src/db/meta/MySQLMetaImpl.cpp
@@ -1801,8 +1801,7 @@ MySQLMetaImpl::CleanUpFilesWithTTL(uint64_t seconds, CleanUpFilter* filter) {
             mysqlpp::Query query = connectionPtr->query();
             query << "SELECT id, table_id, file_id, date"
                   << " FROM " << META_TABLEFILES << " WHERE file_type IN ("
-                  << std::to_string(TableFileSchema::TO_DELETE) << ","
-                  << std::to_string(TableFileSchema::BACKUP) << ")"
+                  << std::to_string(TableFileSchema::TO_DELETE) << "," << std::to_string(TableFileSchema::BACKUP) << ")"
                   << " AND updated_time < " << std::to_string(now - seconds * US_PS) << ";";
 
             ENGINE_LOG_DEBUG << "MySQLMetaImpl::CleanUpFilesWithTTL: " << query.str();
@@ -1835,7 +1834,7 @@ MySQLMetaImpl::CleanUpFilesWithTTL(uint64_t seconds, CleanUpFilter* filter) {
                 if (table_file.file_type_ == (int)TableFileSchema::TO_DELETE) {
                     // delete file from disk storage
                     utils::DeleteTableFilePath(options_, table_file);
-                    ENGINE_LOG_DEBUG << "Removing file id:" << table_file.id_ << " location:" << table_file.location_;
+                    ENGINE_LOG_DEBUG << "Remove file id:" << table_file.id_ << " location:" << table_file.location_;
 
                     idsToDelete.emplace_back(std::to_string(table_file.id_));
                     table_ids.insert(table_file.table_id_);
@@ -1863,7 +1862,7 @@ MySQLMetaImpl::CleanUpFilesWithTTL(uint64_t seconds, CleanUpFilter* filter) {
             }
 
             if (clean_files > 0) {
-                ENGINE_LOG_DEBUG << "Clean " << clean_files << " files deleted in " << seconds << " seconds";
+                ENGINE_LOG_DEBUG << "Clean " << clean_files << " files expired in " << seconds << " seconds";
             }
         }  // Scoped Connection
     } catch (std::exception& e) {
diff --git a/core/src/db/meta/SqliteMetaImpl.cpp b/core/src/db/meta/SqliteMetaImpl.cpp
index 846655676dd8a80e62ebe2d8931cd7db672dc591..c74212e6e7fc6cdb19c2b635322b17a9e5465949 100644
--- a/core/src/db/meta/SqliteMetaImpl.cpp
+++ b/core/src/db/meta/SqliteMetaImpl.cpp
@@ -1351,7 +1351,7 @@ SqliteMetaImpl::CleanUpFilesWithTTL(uint64_t seconds, CleanUpFilter* filter) {
                     // delete file from disk storage
                     utils::DeleteTableFilePath(options_, table_file);
 
-                    ENGINE_LOG_DEBUG << "Removing file id:" << table_file.file_id_ << " location:" << table_file.location_;
+                    ENGINE_LOG_DEBUG << "Remove file id:" << table_file.file_id_ << " location:" << table_file.location_;
                     table_ids.insert(table_file.table_id_);
                 }
 
@@ -1365,7 +1365,7 @@ SqliteMetaImpl::CleanUpFilesWithTTL(uint64_t seconds, CleanUpFilter* filter) {
         }
 
         if (clean_files > 0) {
-            ENGINE_LOG_DEBUG << "Clean " << clean_files << " files deleted in " << seconds << " seconds";
+            ENGINE_LOG_DEBUG << "Clean " << clean_files << " files expired in " << seconds << " seconds";
         }
     } catch (std::exception& e) {
         return HandleException("Encounter exception when clean table files", e.what());