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John Zhuge updated HDFS-11102:
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Summary: Deleting .Trash without -skipTrash should be confirmed (was:
Delete .Trash using command without -skipTrash should be confirmed by re-typing
like Y/N)
> Deleting .Trash without -skipTrash should be confirmed
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> Key: HDFS-11102
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-11102
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: hdfs
> Reporter: Lantao Jin
>
> As a Hadoop DEVOPS, I saw lots of cases that user delete their data by
> mistake. Most of them can be recovered from trash but the rest ones were not
> luck.
> A system can’t guess user's purpose，but a good system should help user to
> avoid their mistakes.
> There is a very common case like:
> If a user want to delete some dir from HDFS, they may use:
> {code}
> hadoop -fs -rm -r /user/someone/pathToBeDelete
> {code}
> The directory /user/someone/pathToBeDelete will move into
> {code}
> /user/someone/.Trash/current/user/someone/pathToBeDelete
> {code}
> If user want delete it permanently, option "-skipTrash" can be attached.
> That's the design and Hadoop knows the user's purpose well.
> Usually, user didn't use "skipTrash" for safety consideration. That's good
> till now.
> But the purpose is to delete some data for saving more space. Then the user
> begin to delete it from Trash with the below command:
> {code}
> hadoop -fs -rm -r /user/someone/ .Trash
> {code}
> Why not just delete
> "/user/someone/.Trash/current/user/someone/pathToBeDelete" is that because
> the user knows only pathToBeDelete in trash directory now.
> The trash include pathToBeDelete will be deleted permanently.
> *But Wait! Do you see the blank space before the dot?*
> If you also type this command by "copy-paste" include some space or invisible
> char, the whole /user/someone directory and the whole /user/someone/.Trash
> will be deleted unfortunately. *Jesus, that's means the directory
> /user/someone is deleted permanently and unexpectedly!*
> So I think *any ".Trash" word appears in the "rm" command without "skip"
> should be launched a double checking by system to help people to avoid their
> mistake.*
> If you also agree this design, I will offer a patch.
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