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[jira] [Assigned] (HDFS-6373) Remove support for extended
attributes on symlinks
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6373?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Charles Lamb reassigned HDFS-6373:
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Assignee: Charles Lamb
> 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
> Components: namenode
> Reporter: Andrew Wang
> Assignee: Charles Lamb
>
> 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}}.
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