[GitHub] [iceberg] amogh-jahagirdar commented on issue #4159: Define behavior of gc.enabled and location ownership

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amogh-jahagirdar commented on issue #4159:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/4159#issuecomment-1046159290


   For expire snapshots, I think it's possible that we do not delete any manifest or data files in the case that those files are still referenced by later snapshots. If we don't allow expiring snapshots when gc.enabled is false, we would prevent them from performing the metadata update to remove snapshots which may be limiting. 
   
   Should we differentiate between performing the metadata operation to expire snapshots and performing the following deletion of unreachable files due to the expiration? Please let me know if I misunderstood something!


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