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Milind Bhandarkar commented on HADOOP-771:
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>> think the problem is that 'FileSystem#remove(new Path(""))' removes one's
>> home directory.
I think that's just one part of the problem.
A single RPC to delete an entire directory structure is the main problem, I
think. If deleting a directory were to take multiple roundtrips between client
and namenode, then it would be possible to ^C the client to stop wiping out the
entire tree. No ?
> 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
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: dfs
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0
> Environment: all
> Reporter: Milind Bhandarkar
> Assigned To: Sameer Paranjpye
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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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