Giuseppe Reina created HDFS-6604: ------------------------------------ Summary: Disk space leak with shortcircuit Key: HDFS-6604 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6604 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: hdfs-client Affects Versions: 2.4.0 Environment: Centos 6.5 and distribution Hortonworks Data Platform v2.1 Reporter: Giuseppe Reina
When HDFS shortcircuit is enabled, the file descriptors of the deleted HDFS blocks are kept open until the cache is full. This prevents the operating system to free the space on disk. More details on the [mailing list thread|http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-user/201406.mbox/%3CCAPjB-CA3RV=slhuhwue5cv3pc4+rffz10-tkydbfs9rt2de...@mail.gmail.com%3E] -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)