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Allen Wittenauer commented on HDFS-753: --------------------------------------- The answer appears to be no. The question is, can we still fix this or is it too late? > HDFS allows delete of read only files and directories > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-753 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-753 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.20.1 > Reporter: Dain Sundstrom > Assignee: Sanjay Radia > > Add a file or directory to HDFS, and chmod it to be read only. Then execute > a delete and the file will be deleted. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)