FileSystem.delete(...) implementations should not throw FileNotFoundException -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-6688 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6688 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Components: fs, fs/s3 Affects Versions: 0.20.2 Environment: Amazon EC2/S3 Reporter: Danny Leshem Priority: Blocker Fix For: 0.20.3, 0.21.0, 0.22.0 S3FileSystem.delete(Path path, boolean recursive) may fail and throw a FileNotFoundException if a directory is being deleted while at the same time some of its files are deleted in the background. This is definitely not the expected behavior of a delete method. If one of the to-be-deleted files is found missing, the method should not fail and simply continue. This is true for the general contract of FileSystem.delete, and also for its various implementations: RawLocalFileSystem (and specifically FileUtil.fullyDelete) exhibits the same problem. The fix is to silently catch and ignore FileNotFoundExceptions in delete loops. This can very easily be unit-tested, at least for RawLocalFileSystem. The reason this issue bothers me is that the cleanup part of a long (Mahout) MR job inconsistently fails for me, and I think this is the root problem. The log shows: {code} java.io.FileNotFoundException: s3://S3-BUCKET/tmp/0008E25BF7554CA9/2521362836721872/DistributedMatrix.times.outputVector/_temporary/_attempt_201004061215_0092_r_000002_0/part-00002: No such file or directory. at org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem.getFileStatus(S3FileSystem.java:334) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem.listStatus(S3FileSystem.java:193) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem.delete(S3FileSystem.java:303) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem.delete(S3FileSystem.java:312) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileOutputCommitter.cleanupJob(FileOutputCommitter.java:64) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.OutputCommitter.cleanupJob(OutputCommitter.java:135) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Task.runJobCleanupTask(Task.java:826) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:292) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:170) {code} (similar errors are displayed for ReduceTask.run) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.