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Vinod K V commented on HADOOP-6631:
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I have one comment on the patch. When we list the files in a dir, and then try
deleting *a file* and fail, we return from the method. This may be right when
the parent directory itself is non-writable because then going on with other
files/dirs is useless anyways. But I quickly checked the man page for unlink on
Linux and realized that delete of a file can fail when
- write permissions are denied on the parent dir
- the file is being used by some other process
- the file doesn't exist anymore
- or the file is on a read-only filesystem.
The current solution is enough for the 1st and 4th cases. The 2nd and 3rd are
really possible, and so should be handled gracefully as well by proceeding to
the delete of other files/dirs in the parent-dir. To optimize the non-writable
directory case, we may want to do a check if the parent-dir is writable or not
in the beginning itself.
> FileUtil.fullyDelete() should continue to delete other files despite failure
> at any level.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-6631
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6631
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: fs, util
> Reporter: Vinod K V
> Assignee: Ravi Gummadi
> Fix For: 0.22.0
>
> Attachments: hadoop-6631-y20s-1.patch, hadoop-6631-y20s-2.patch,
> HADOOP-6631.patch, HADOOP-6631.patch
>
>
> Ravi commented about this on HADOOP-6536. Paraphrasing...
> Currently FileUtil.fullyDelete(myDir) comes out stopping deletion of other
> files/directories if it is unable to delete a file/dir(say because of not
> having permissions to delete that file/dir) anywhere under myDir. This is
> because we return from method if the recursive call "if(!fullyDelete())
> {return false;}" fails at any level of recursion.
> Shouldn't it continue with deletion of other files/dirs continuing in the for
> loop instead of returning false here ?
> I guess fullyDelete() should delete as many files as possible(similar to 'rm
> -rf').
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