[jira] Created: (HADOOP-5825) Recursively deleting a directory with millions of files makes NameNode unresponsive for other commands until the deletion completes

[Suresh Srinivas (JIRA)]

Recursively deleting a directory with millions of files makes NameNode 
unresponsive for other commands until the deletion completes
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                 Key: HADOOP-5825
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5825
             Project: Hadoop Core
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Suresh Srinivas


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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