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 339A011A98 for ; Tue, 13 May 2014 00:38:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 88234 invoked by uid 500); 12 May 2014 20:38:16 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-hdfs-dev-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 88068 invoked by uid 500); 12 May 2014 20:38:15 -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 87889 invoked by uid 99); 12 May 2014 20:38:15 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO arcas.apache.org) (140.211.11.28) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 May 2014 20:38:15 +0000 Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 20:38:15 +0000 (UTC) From: "Andrew Wang (JIRA)" To: hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Subject: [jira] [Created] (HDFS-6373) Remove support for extended attributes on symlinks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-JIRA-FingerPrint: 30527f35849b9dde25b450d4833f0394 Andrew Wang created HDFS-6373: --------------------------------- Summary: Remove support for extended attributes on symlinks Key: HDFS-6373 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6373 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Sub-task Reporter: Andrew Wang Looking in the Linux source code, we see the following: http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.14.3/fs/xattr.c {code} 60 /* 61 * In the user.* namespace, only regular files and directories can have 62 * extended attributes. For sticky directories, only the owner and 63 * privileged users can write attributes. 64 */ {code} We should consider removing {{XAttrFeature}} from {{INodeSymlink}}. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)