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Nicolas Liochon commented on HDFS-5916:
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This would be great. I was actually very surprised when I discovered that bulk
was not available.
On the atomicity debate: it could be an option, but If I look at what ZooKeeper
did when they added 'multi', they chose to have only fully atomic operations.
It makes the API simpler for the client, and there are less options to manage
in the server code this way...
> provide API to bulk delete directories/files
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> Key: HDFS-5916
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5916
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
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> It would be nice to have an API to delete directories and files in bulk - for
> example, when deleting Hive partitions or HBase regions in large numbers, the
> code could avoid many trips to NN.
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