Description
Delete a directory with millions of files. This could take several minutes (observed 12 mins for 9 million files). While the operation is in progress FSNamesystem lock is held and the requests from clients are not handled until deletion completes.
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HDFS-2815 Namenode is not coming out of safemode when we perform ( NN crash + restart ) . Also FSCK report shows blocks missed.
- Closed
- is related to
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HDFS-3791 Backport HDFS-173 to Branch-1 : Recursively deleting a directory with millions of files makes NameNode unresponsive for other commands until the deletion completes
- Closed
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HDFS-2938 Recursive delete of a large directory makes namenode unresponsive
- Resolved