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dhruba borthakur commented on HDFS-821:
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what kind of heuristics do you have in mind to address this?

> Garbage collect datanode tmp dirs
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>
>                 Key: HDFS-821
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-821
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: data-node
>    Affects Versions: 0.22.0
>            Reporter: Todd Lipcon
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> I've seen in practice (and it's been reported on the list) cases where the 
> datanode's tmp dir can become quite full with abandoned blocks. There's an 
> ancient comment from April 07:
> {code}
>   // REMIND - mjc - eventually we should have a timeout system
>   // in place to clean up block files left by abandoned clients.
>   // We should have some timer in place, so that if a blockfile
>   // is created but non-valid, and has been idle for >48 hours,
>   // we can GC it safely.
> {code}
> Well, we can consider ourselves reminded, so let's do it!

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