Never mind. I overlooked the link that says the non-deprecated version is FileSystem.delete(Path, BOOLEAN).
I'm still curious if there is a an automatically self-cleaning temporary file system. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:41 PM, W.P. McNeill <[email protected]> wrote: > FileSystem.delete(Path) appears to be deprecated in the new API. Is there > a non-deprecated way to do this. > > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Generally you can delete files on any hadoop-used FS using a suitable >> FileSystem.delete(Path) call. Would this work for you? >> >> I'm not aware of any auto temporary-create-and-delete functionality >> though. Would be good to know if this too exists inside Hadoop's libs. >> >> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:47 AM, W.P. McNeill <[email protected]> wrote: >> > These seem like basic questions, but I haven't been able to find the >> answers >> > in the O'Reilly book or online. >> >> Tom White's book covers the deleting part at least. Check it out: >> Chapter 3 (HDFS) -> Java Interface -> Deleting Data. >> >> -- >> Harsh J >> http://harshj.com >> > >
