diff --git a/cloud/src/recycler/hdfs_accessor.cpp b/cloud/src/recycler/hdfs_accessor.cpp
index ffbc5788486b64..5394c39c12245e 100644
--- a/cloud/src/recycler/hdfs_accessor.cpp
+++ b/cloud/src/recycler/hdfs_accessor.cpp
@@ -368,6 +368,14 @@ int HdfsAccessor::init() {
     return 0;
 }
 
+    // Currently, the hdfs accessor deletes files on hdfs through a prefix parameter.
+    // The format of the prefix parameter is data/{tablet id}/{rowset_prefix}, 
+    // for example: data/492211/02000000008a012957476a3e174dfdaa71ee5f80a3abafa3_.
+    // Since the hdfs cpp sdk doesn't provide an interface for deleting by prefix,
+    // we need to extract the tablet id path from the given prefix, 
+    // traverse all files in the tablet id path, and delete the files that match the prefix.
+    // This implementation is not ideal because the hdfs accessor needs to be aware of the path structure.
+    // We will optimize this in the future.
 int HdfsAccessor::delete_prefix(const std::string& path_prefix, int64_t expiration_time) {
     auto uri = to_uri(path_prefix);
     LOG(INFO) << "delete prefix, uri=" << uri;
diff --git a/cloud/test/hdfs_accessor_test.cpp b/cloud/test/hdfs_accessor_test.cpp
index d0ea8a4ae0517e..72188e4c339a24 100644
--- a/cloud/test/hdfs_accessor_test.cpp
+++ b/cloud/test/hdfs_accessor_test.cpp
@@ -277,14 +277,12 @@ TEST(HdfsAccessorTest, delete_prefix) {
     EXPECT_TRUE(list_files.contains("data/20000/1_0.dat"));
     EXPECT_TRUE(list_files.contains("data111/10000/1_0.dat"));
 
-    ret = accessor.delete_prefix("data/10000");
-    EXPECT_EQ(ret, -1);
-    ret = accessor.delete_prefix("data111/10000");
-    EXPECT_EQ(ret, -1);
+    ret = accessor.delete_prefix("data/10000/1_");
+    EXPECT_EQ(ret, 0);
+    ret = accessor.delete_prefix("data/10000/2_");
+    EXPECT_EQ(ret, 0);
     ret = accessor.delete_prefix("data/20000/1_");
     EXPECT_EQ(ret, 0);
-    ret = accessor.delete_prefix("data/10000/1");
-    EXPECT_EQ(ret, -1);
 
     iter.reset();
     ret = accessor.list_all(&iter);
@@ -294,8 +292,8 @@ TEST(HdfsAccessorTest, delete_prefix) {
         list_files.insert(std::move(file->path));
     }
     EXPECT_EQ(list_files.size(), 3);
-    EXPECT_TRUE(list_files.contains("data/10000/20000/1_0.dat"));
     EXPECT_TRUE(list_files.contains("data/10000/20000/30000/1_0.dat"));
+    EXPECT_TRUE(list_files.contains("data/10000/20000/1_0.dat"));
     EXPECT_TRUE(list_files.contains("data111/10000/1_0.dat"));
 }