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Colin Patrick McCabe commented on HDFS-6382:
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I don't think a nightly (or weekly) cleanup job that lives outside HDFS is that
difficult or complex to write. If it were done as a MapReduce job, it could
easily work on the whole cluster. This is something we could consider putting
upstream.
Another issue to consider here is snapshots. Deleting files is not going to
free space if they exist in a snapshot.
> HDFS File/Directory TTL
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> Key: HDFS-6382
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6382
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: hdfs-client, namenode
> Affects Versions: 2.4.0
> Reporter: Zesheng Wu
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> In production environment, we always have scenario like this, we want to
> backup files on hdfs for some time and then hope to delete these files
> automatically. For example, we keep only 1 day's logs on local disk due to
> limited disk space, but we need to keep about 1 month's logs in order to
> debug program bugs, so we keep all the logs on hdfs and delete logs which are
> older than 1 month. This is a typical scenario of HDFS TTL. So here we
> propose that hdfs can support TTL.
> Following are some details of this proposal:
> 1. HDFS can support TTL on a specified file or directory
> 2. If a TTL is set on a file, the file will be deleted automatically after
> the TTL is expired
> 3. If a TTL is set on a directory, the child files and directories will be
> deleted automatically after the TTL is expired
> 4. The child file/directory's TTL configuration should override its parent
> directory's
> 5. A global configuration is needed to configure that whether the deleted
> files/directories should go to the trash or not
> 6. A global configuration is needed to configure that whether a directory
> with TTL should be deleted when it is emptied by TTL mechanism or not.
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