Jagadesh Kiran N created HDFS-8452: -------------------------------------- Summary: In WebHDFS, duplicate directory creation is not throwing exception. Key: HDFS-8452 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8452 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 2.7.0 Reporter: Jagadesh Kiran N Priority: Minor Fix For: 3.0.0
*Case 1 (CLI):* a. In HDFS Create a new Directory {code}./hdfs dfs -mkdir /new , A New directory will be created{code} b. Now Execute the same Command again {code} mkdir: `/new': File exists , Error message will be shown {code} *Case 2 (RestAPI) :* a. In HDFS Create a new Directory {code}curl -i -X PUT -L "http://host1:50070/webhdfs/v1/new1?op=MKDIRS&overwrite=false"{code} A New Directory will be created b. Now Execute the same webhdfs command again No exception will be thrown back to the client. {code} HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: no-cache Expires: Thu, 21 May 2015 15:11:57 GMT Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 15:11:57 GMT Pragma: no-cache Content-Type: application/json Transfer-Encoding: chunked {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)