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dhruba borthakur updated HADOOP-5825: ------------------------------------- Component/s: dfs > 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 > Components: dfs > Reporter: Suresh Srinivas > Assignee: 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.