[HADOOP-18188] Support touch command for directory

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.4.0
• Component/s: common
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Target Version/s: 3.4.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Before this improvement, "hadoop fs -touch" command threw PathIsDirectoryException for directory. Now the command supports directory and will not throw that exception.
• Assignee: Viraj Jasani
• Reporter: Akira Ajisaka
• Created: 29/Mar/22 14:26
• Updated: 28/Jan/24 08:28
• Resolved: 07/Apr/22 08:30

Description

Currently hadoop fs -touch command cannot update the mtime and the atime of directory. The feature would be useful when we check whether the filesystem is ready to write or not without creating any file.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4135