When a directory with huge number of files is deleted, the NN becomes unresponsive ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HDFS-1393 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1393 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: name-node Reporter: dhruba borthakur If one deletes a directory with about 2 million files, the namenode becomes unresponsive for close to 20 seconds. The reason being that the FSnamesystem lock is held while all the blocks/namespace-entries are freed. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.