It's not temporary files, it's any file that has been compacted away. If you
keep files around longer than { dfs.namenode.checkpoint.period}, then you have
a chance to recover in case your most recent checkpoint is corrupt.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Hughes" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 3:57:57 PM
Subject: Accumulo GC and Hadoop trash settings
Hi all,
>From reading about the Accumulo GC, it sounds like temporary files are
>routinely deleted during GC cycles. In a small testing environment, I've the
>HDFS Accumulo user's .Trash folder have 10s of gigabytes of data.
Is there any reason that the default value for gc.trash.ignore is false? Is
there any downside to deleting GC'ed files completely?
Thanks in advance,
Jim
http://accumulo.apache.org/1.6/accumulo_user_manual.html#_gc_trash_ignore
