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Chris Nauroth commented on HDFS-8986:
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Within the scope of this JIRA, I also suggest that we update the documentation
(hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/markdown/HdfsSnapshots.md) to give a
thorough description of the behavior of {{-du}} and {{-count}} in the presence
of snapshots. The current behavior is helpful for seeing the full metadata
cost of a path, but it can be a source of confusion for users.
> 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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