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dhruba borthakur commented on HDFS-1403: ---------------------------------------- It is possible that we make the "fsck -truncate" only cleanup files only those files whose last modtime is within the last hour or so. I am a little worried that otherwise it might erroneously cleanup files that do nto need fixing. > add -truncate option to fsck > ---------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-1403 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1403 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: hdfs client, name-node > Reporter: sam rash > > When running fsck, it would be useful to be able to tell hdfs to truncate any > corrupt file to the last valid position in the latest block. Then, when > running hadoop fsck, an admin can cleanup the filesystem. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.