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Eli Collins commented on HADOOP-8551: ------------------------------------- And I guess those jobs will never run on older 205 clusters. We have to worry about jobs (and tests) that run on multiple versions and didn't want to require people update their jobs (most of the other shell changes that were incompatible didn't actually require people update their jobs). > fs -mkdir creates parent directories without the -p option > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-8551 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8551 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Components: fs > Affects Versions: 0.23.3, 2.0.0-alpha, 3.0.0 > Reporter: Robert Joseph Evans > Assignee: John George > Fix For: 0.23.3, 2.0.2-alpha > > Attachments: HADOOP-8551.patch, HADOOP-8551.patch, HADOOP-8551.patch, > HADOOP-8551.patch > > > 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira