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dhruba borthakur commented on HADOOP-771:
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We can deprecate all the 'delete(name)' APIs.
The description of the new public AP can describe better what happens when a
recursive flag is set and the pathname is a file.
> Namenode should return error when trying to delete non-empty directory
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> Key: HADOOP-771
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-771
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: dfs
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0
> Environment: all
> Reporter: Milind Bhandarkar
> Assignee: Mahadev konar
> Attachments: Hadoop-771_2.patch, patch_771_1.patch
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> Currently, the namenode.delete() method allows recursive deletion of a
> directory. That is, even a non-empty directory could be deleted using
> namenode.delete(). To avoid costly programmer errors, the namenode should not
> remove the non-empty directories in this method. Recursively deleting
> directory should either be performed with listPaths() followed by a delete()
> for every path, or with a specific namenode method such as deleteRecursive().
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