[HADOOP-8551] fs -mkdir creates parent directories without the -p option

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.3, 2.0.0-alpha, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.3, 2.0.2-alpha
• Component/s: fs
• Target Version/s: 0.23.3
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change
• Release Note: FsShell's "mkdir" no longer implicitly creates all non-existent parent directories. The command adopts the posix compliant behavior of requiring the "-p" flag to auto-create parent directories.
• Assignee: John George
• Reporter: Robert Joseph Evans
• Created: 03/Jul/12 13:54
• Updated: 12/May/16 18:27
• Resolved: 25/Jul/12 13:59

Description

hadoop fs -mkdir foo/bar will work even if bar is not present. It should only work if -p is given and foo is not present.

Issue Links

• relates to: HADOOP-8854 Document backward incompatible changes between hadoop-1.x and 2.x
• relates to: HADOOP-8873 Port HADOOP-8175 (Add mkdir -p flag) to branch-1