Critical Description
There can be directories in HDFS containing unprintable characters; when doing hadoop fs -ls, these characters are not even visible, and can only be seen for example if output is piped thru od.
When these are loaded via msck, they are stored in e.g. mysql as "?" (literal question mark, findable via LIKE '%?%' in db) and show accordingly in Hive.
However, datanucleus appears to encode it as %3F; this causes the partition to be unusable - it cannot be dropped, and other operations like drop table get stuck (didn't investigate in detail why; drop table got unstuck as soon as the partition was removed from metastore).
We should probably have a 2-way option for such cases - error out on load (default), or convert to '?'/drop such characters (and have partition that actually works, too).
We should also check if partitions with '?' inserted explicitly work at all with datanucleus.