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[jira] Updated: (HADOOP-5825) Recursively deleting a directory with millions of files makes NameNode unresponsive for other commands until the deletion completes

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5825?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

dhruba borthakur updated HADOOP-5825:
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    Component/s: dfs

> Recursively deleting a directory with millions of files makes NameNode unresponsive for other commands until the deletion completes
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>                 Key: HADOOP-5825
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5825
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: dfs
>            Reporter: Suresh Srinivas
>            Assignee: Suresh Srinivas
>
> Delete a directory with millions of files. This could take several minutes (observed 12 mins for 9 million files). While the operation is in progress FSNamesystem lock is held and the requests from clients are not handled until deletion completes.

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