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[jira] Updated: (HADOOP-4368) Superuser privileges required to do "df"

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4368?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Ravi Phulari updated HADOOP-4368:
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    Attachment: Test plan for hadoop fs -df.html

Attaching test plan.

> Superuser privileges required to do "df"
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-4368
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4368
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>    Affects Versions: 0.18.1
>            Reporter: Brian Bockelman
>            Assignee: Craig Macdonald
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.21.0
>
>         Attachments: fuse_statfs.patch, fuse_statfs_trunk.patch, hadoop4368.fsstatus.patch, hadoop4368.fsstatus.v2.patch, hadoop4368.fsstatus.v3.patch, hadoop4368.fsstatus.v4.patch, hadoop4368.fsstatus.v5.patch, hadoop4368.fsstatus.v6.patch, hadoop4368.fsstatus.v7.patch, Test plan for hadoop fs -df.html
>
>   Original Estimate: 0.17h
>  Remaining Estimate: 0.17h
>
> super user privileges are required in DFS in order to get the file system statistics (FSNamesystem.java, getStats method).  This means that when HDFS is mounted via fuse-dfs as a non-root user, "df" is going to return 16exabytes total and 0 free instead of the correct amount.
> As far as I can tell, there's no need to require super user privileges to see the file system size (and historically in Unix, this is not required).
> To fix this, simply comment out the privilege check in the getStats method.

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