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Ivan Mitic commented on HDFS-4839:
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Thanks Colin for providing the additional context. Some comments inline.
bq. It's not difficult to give relevant error messages on all platforms,
including Windows and all the UNIXes.
I was never arguing that it’s hard to give error messages on all platforms.
However, each time we add platform dependent code it adds on the cost over time
and makes things more complex w.r.t. cross-platform support. IOW, let’s do this
only when absolutely necessary.
bq. I have had to diagnose issues in production clusters where rename or mkdir
failed, and the logs did not reveal why. It's not fun. And it can lead to very
serious code and/or system administration problems getting misdiagnosed.
Thanks, this is a valid point, I agree.
> add NativeIO#mkdirs, that provides an error message on failure
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> Key: HDFS-4839
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4839
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 2.0.5-beta
> Reporter: Colin Patrick McCabe
> Priority: Minor
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> It would be nice to have a variant of mkdirs that provided an error message
> explaining why it failed. This would make it easier to debug certain failing
> unit tests that rely on mkdir / mkdirs-- the ChecksumFilesystem tests, for
> example.
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