If something goes wrong (i.e. somebody accidentally issues a big delete), then having the Trash around makes recovery plausible.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:57 PM, James Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > From reading about the Accumulo GC, it sounds like temporary files are > routinely deleted during GC cycles. In a small testing environment, I've > the HDFS Accumulo user's .Trash folder have 10s of gigabytes of data. > > Is there any reason that the default value for gc.trash.ignore is false? > Is there any downside to deleting GC'ed files completely? > > Thanks in advance, > > Jim > > http://accumulo.apache.org/1.6/accumulo_user_manual.html#_gc_trash_ignore >
