[HDFS-4872] Idempotent delete operation.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.4-alpha
• Component/s: namenode
• Target Version/s: 2.1.0-beta
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Konstantin Shvachko
• Created: 03/Jun/13 20:45
• Updated: 05/Jun/13 16:50

Description

Making delete idempotent is important to provide uninterrupted job execution in case of HA failover.
This is to discuss different approaches to idempotent implementation of delete.

Issue Links

• is related to: HDFS-4849 Enable retries for create and append operations.
• relates to: HADOOP-9361 Strictly define the expected behavior of filesystem APIs and write tests to verify compliance