Hadoop HDFS : Trash location

Question

When and where, HDFS creates the .Trash folder ?

Does there any rule or logic, any reference ?

Answer 1

Every HDFS user has their own .Trash folder on HDFS within hdfs:///user/<name>. The folder existance is checked and then created whenever hadoop fs -rm command gets executed by that user without a -skipTrash option.

This is purged on a schedule as per values of core-site.xml

• fs.trash.interval
• fs.trash.checkpoint.interval

By default, both are zero, so it is disabled and deleted files will therefore always be recoverable until manually cleared out by an HDFS administrator.

Also see this IBM post on HDFS Trash