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Steve Loughran updated HADOOP-12977: ------------------------------------ Priority: Minor (was: Major) > s3a ignores delete("/", true) > ----------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-12977 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12977 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: fs/s3 > Affects Versions: 2.9.0 > Reporter: Steve Loughran > Priority: Minor > > if you try to delete the root directory on s3a, you get politely but firmly > told you can't > {code} > 2016-03-30 12:01:44,924 INFO s3a.S3AFileSystem > (S3AFileSystem.java:delete(638)) - s3a cannot delete the root directory > {code} > The semantics of {{rm -rf "/"}} are defined, they are "delete everything > underneath, while preserving the root dir itself". > # s3a needs to support this. > # this skipped through the FS contract tests in > {{AbstractContractRootDirectoryTest}}; the option of whether deleting / works > or not should be made configurable. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)