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Gautam Gopalakrishnan commented on HDFS-8986:
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Thanks [~jagadesh.kiran]. This is a real need for many users and something that
works until snapshots are enabled. Our tools should continue to work in a
familiar way in the presence of new features or have a way of compensating for
it. Other than documenting this change, are you aware of any other method to
achieve what the users want (get current usage of a directory)?
> Add option to -du to calculate directory space usage excluding snapshots
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> Key: HDFS-8986
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8986
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: snapshots
> Reporter: Gautam Gopalakrishnan
> Assignee: Jagadesh Kiran N
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> When running {{hadoop fs -du}} on a snapshotted directory (or one of its
> children), the report includes space consumed by blocks that are only present
> in the snapshots. This is confusing for end users.
> {noformat}
> $ hadoop fs -du -h -s /tmp/parent /tmp/parent/*
> 799.7 M 2.3 G /tmp/parent
> 799.7 M 2.3 G /tmp/parent/sub1
> $ hdfs dfs -createSnapshot /tmp/parent snap1
> Created snapshot /tmp/parent/.snapshot/snap1
> $ hadoop fs -rm -skipTrash /tmp/parent/sub1/*
> ...
> $ hadoop fs -du -h -s /tmp/parent /tmp/parent/*
> 799.7 M 2.3 G /tmp/parent
> 799.7 M 2.3 G /tmp/parent/sub1
> $ hdfs dfs -deleteSnapshot /tmp/parent snap1
> $ hadoop fs -du -h -s /tmp/parent /tmp/parent/*
> 0 0 /tmp/parent
> 0 0 /tmp/parent/sub1
> {noformat}
> It would be helpful if we had a flag, say -X, to exclude any snapshot related
> disk usage in the output
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