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Bertrand Dechoux commented on HADOOP-8791:
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I made the same test on the 1.0.3 version and I can confirm that directories
can not be delete, being empty or not has no influence...
@Hemanth : so yes, the documentation should be updated to say only files.
Can someone check for previous versions? Is that a regression? Or a
documentation that was never correct? If that's a regression, should it be
corrected now that's the 1.0.3 (and I guess the 1.0) behaviour?
I also tested on 1.0.3 whether size of files has an impact but it doesn't.
Second question : if the observed behaviour is the 'correct' one, it would
really beg for a 'rmdir' equivalent command for HDFS.
> rm "Only deletes non empty directory and files."
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> Key: HADOOP-8791
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8791
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: documentation
> Affects Versions: 1.0.3, 3.0.0
> Reporter: Bertrand Dechoux
> Assignee: Jing Zhao
> Labels: documentation
> Attachments: HADOOP-8791-branch-1.patch, HADOOP-8791-trunk.patch
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> The documentation (1.0.3) is describing the opposite of what rm does.
> It should be "Only delete files and empty directories."
> With regards to file, the size of the file should not matter, should it?
> OR I am totally misunderstanding the semantic of this command and I am not
> the only one.
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