drop operations may cause file leak ----------------------------------- Key: HIVE-1665 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1665 Project: Hadoop Hive Issue Type: Bug Reporter: He Yongqiang Assignee: He Yongqiang
Right now when doing a drop, Hive first drops metadata and then drops the actual files. If file system is down at that time, the files will keep not deleted. Had an offline discussion about this: to fix this, add a new conf "scratch dir" into hive conf. when doing a drop operation: 1) move data to scratch directory 2) drop metadata 3) if 2) failed, roll back 1) and report error 3.1 if 2) succeeded, drop data from scratch directory 3.2 4) if 3.2 fails, we are ok because we assume the scratch dir will be emptied manually. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.