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[jira] Commented: (HDFS-173) Recursively deleting a directory with millions of files makes NameNode unresponsive for other commands until the deletion completes

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Raghu Angadi commented on HDFS-173:
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+1. Looks good. Thanks for the multiple iterations.


> Recursively deleting a directory with millions of files makes NameNode unresponsive for other commands until the deletion completes
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-173
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-173
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Suresh Srinivas
>            Assignee: Suresh Srinivas
>         Attachments: HDFS-173.1.patch, HDFS-173.2.patch, HDFS-173.3.patch, HDFS-173.patch
>
>
> 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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