Investigate HDFS directory delete protection impacts (if any)
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Description
Was asked if enabling if HDFS directory write protections (added with https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-15243) would prevent Accumulo from cleaning up sub-directories.
This issue is to:
1) Determine if Accumulo deletes non-empty directories directly.
2) See if there is any impact if something like /accumulo/[instance_id]/tables was "delete" protected - could that be enabled without impacting Accumulo?
3) See if / what would need to be changed to allow this feature to be enabled in HDFS.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by tracing Accumulo's cleanup paths and reviewing the HDFS-15243 directory protection behavior. Check whether non-empty directories are deleted directly and whether protection on /accumulo/[instance_id]/tables affects cleanup. Done means documenting the impact and any changes required to enable the HDFS feature.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- databases, distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100