milleruntime commented on issue #1872: URL: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/1872#issuecomment-773550502
> Is it feasible to cancel bulk imports if a table is being deleted? Could save a lot of work / waiting for a bulk import to complete and then just turn around and throw it away. If you wonder how this could happen? If someone had asynchronous processes that handled bulk imports and a second process that scheduled deletions - unless those processes are communicating it seems feasible that if a table had a bulk import that was taking a long time and for whatever reason that table became obsoleted, then the "deleter" could issue the delete while that bulk import was still being performed. While it's not unreasonable to expect users to have better coordination of their processing - have Accumulo optimize efforts when feasible would not be a bad thing in this case. We already have the `BulkImportCacheCleaner` so it may not be bad to modify it to handle cancelled bulk imports or look for a deleted flag. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
