[HADOOP-6203] Improve error message when moving to trash fails due to quota issue

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.21.0
• Component/s: fs
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change, Reviewed
• Release Note: Improved error message suggests using -skpTrash option when hdfs -rm fails to move to trash because of quota.
• Assignee: Boris Shkolnik
• Reporter: Jakob Homan
• Created: 18/Aug/09 19:29
• Updated: 24/Aug/10 20:39
• Resolved: 08/Sep/09 01:42

Description

HADOOP-6080 provided an option for deleting files even when overquota, but the error message that's returned in this situation is unhelpful and doesn't suggest skipTrash as a remediation:

$ hdfs -rmr /foo/bar/bat/boo

rmr: Failed to move to trash:
hdfs://cluster/foo/bar/bat/boo

In this situation, the error message should say there was a quote problem and suggest -skipTrash.