Hi - Is it possible to set the access time of a HDFS directory programmatically?
I’m using 0.20.204.0. I need to do that in unit tests, where my clean up program is going to remove files/dirs whose access time is too far in the past. I can setTimes on the test files without any problem, but not on the directories... The directories created automatically when I create the test fiels have a date (with getAccessTime) of 1969/12/31 16:00 and I can’t control that date, which makes my unit testing impossible. By the way, setTimes doesn’t allow to set the date on dirs, but getAccessTime is happy to return a date, which is inconsistent, IMHO. Finally, on our production systems, I’m seeing appropriate dates for both files and directories. Any insight appreciated, Thanks! Frank
