Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-hadoop-hdfs-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-hdfs-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3666101DE for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 19:15:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 43968 invoked by uid 500); 2 Aug 2013 19:15:49 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-hdfs-dev-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 43498 invoked by uid 500); 2 Aug 2013 19:15:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact hdfs-dev-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 43479 invoked by uid 99); 2 Aug 2013 19:15:49 -0000 Received: from arcas.apache.org (HELO arcas.apache.org) (140.211.11.28) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:15:49 +0000 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 19:15:49 +0000 (UTC) From: "Stephen Chu (JIRA)" To: hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Subject: [jira] [Created] (HDFS-5059) Unnecessary permission denied error when creating/deleting snapshots with a non-existent directory MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-JIRA-FingerPrint: 30527f35849b9dde25b450d4833f0394 Stephen Chu created HDFS-5059: --------------------------------- Summary: Unnecessary permission denied error when creating/deleting snapshots with a non-existent directory Key: HDFS-5059 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5059 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: snapshots Affects Versions: 3.0.0 Reporter: Stephen Chu Priority: Trivial As a non-superuser, when you create and delete a snapshot but accidentally specify a non-existent directory to snapshot, you will see an extra/unnecessary permission denied error right after the "No such file or directory" error. {code} [schu@hdfs-snapshots-vanilla ~]$ hdfs dfs -deleteSnapshot /user/schuf/ snap1 deleteSnapshot: `/user/schuf/': No such file or directory deleteSnapshot: Permission denied [schu@hdfs-snapshots-vanilla ~]$ hdfs dfs -createSnapshot /user/schuf/ snap1 createSnapshot: `/user/schuf/': No such file or directory createSnapshot: Permission denied {code} As the HDFS superuser, instead of the "Permission denied" error you'll get an extra "Directory does not exist" error. {code} [root@hdfs-snapshots-vanilla ~]# hdfs dfs -deleteSnapshot /user/schuf/ snap1 deleteSnapshot: `/user/schuf/': No such file or directory deleteSnapshot: Directory does not exist: /user/schuf {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira