Recursively deleting a directory with millions of files makes NameNode unresponsive for other commands until the deletion completes -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-5825 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5825 Project: Hadoop Core Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Suresh Srinivas Delete a directory with millions of files. This could take several minutes (observed 12 mins for 9 million files). While the operation is in progress FSNamesystem lock is held and the requests from clients are not handled until deletion completes. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.