Yongjun Zhang created HDFS-12866:
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Summary: Recursive delete of a large directory or snapshot makes
namenode unresponsive
Key: HDFS-12866
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-12866
Project: Hadoop HDFS
Issue Type: Bug
Components: hdfs
Reporter: Yongjun Zhang
Currently file/directory deletion happens in two steps (see
{{FSNamesystem#delete(String src, boolean recursive, boolean logRetryCache)}}:
# Do the following under fsn write lock and release the lock afterwards
** 1.1 recursively traverse the target, collect INodes and all blocks to be
deleted
** 1.2 delete all INodes
# Delete the blocks to be deleted incrementally, chunk by chunk. That is, in a
loop, do:
** acquire fsn write lock,
** delete chunk of blocks
** release fsn write lock
Breaking the deletion to two steps is to not hold the fsn write lock for too
long thus making NN not responsive. However, even with this, for deleting large
directory, or deleting snapshot that has a lot of contents, step 1 itself would
takes long time thus still hold the fsn write lock for too long and make NN not
responsive.
A possible solution would be to add one more sub step in step 1, and only hold
fsn write lock in sub step 1.1:
* 1.1. hold the fsn write lock, disconnect the target to be deleted from its
parent dir, release the lock
* 1.2 recursively traverse the target, collect INodes and all blocks to be
deleted
* 1.3 delete all INodes
Then do step 2.
This means, any operations on any file/dir need to check if its ancestor is
deleted (ancestor is disconnected), similar to what's done in
FSNamesystem#isFileDeleted method.
I'm throwing the thought here for further discussion. Welcome comments and
inputs.
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