[HADOOP-1207] hdfs -rm should NOT fail if one of the files to remove is missing

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Assignee: Tsz-wo Sze
• Reporter: arkady borkovsky
• Created: 05/Apr/07 00:42
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:42
• Resolved: 18/Jun/07 22:54

Description

It looks like hdfs -rm with wild card argument first builds the list of
files to delete, and then deletes them one by one.
(This is OK so far).

If one of the files on the list gets deleted by someone else before the
command reaches it, the command fails.
This seems a wrong behavior to me. I'd expect the command report the problem
and continue deleting the rest of the files.