[jira] [Commented] (HDFS-3000) Add a public API for setting quotas

["Aaron T. Myers (Commented) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Aaron T. Myers commented on HDFS-3000:
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I've given this some thought and come to the conclusion that we should just add {{setQuota(Path p, long nsQuota, long dsQuota)}} to the public interface of o.a.h.fs.FileSystem. Doing so shouldn't be incompatible, as we're just adding a net new method.

The concept of a quota is already somewhat exposed in o.a.h.fs.FileSystem, since {{getContentSummary(Path)}} is included in FileSystem, which returns an object containing quota information. FileSystem implementations which don't support quotas return "-1" for the quota fields. We could either add a no-op default implementation of {{setQuota(...)}} to FileSystem, or add a default implementation that throws an UnsupportedOperationException, as is done for {{o.a.h.fs.FileSystem#listCorruptFileBlocks}}.

If people are OK with this proposal, I'll whip up a patch real quick.
                
> Add a public API for setting quotas
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>
>                 Key: HDFS-3000
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3000
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: hdfs client
>    Affects Versions: 0.23.1
>            Reporter: Aaron T. Myers
>            Assignee: Aaron T. Myers
>
> Currently one can set the quota of a file or directory from the command line, but if a user wants to set it programmatically, they need to use DistributedFileSystem, which is annotated InterfaceAudience.Private.

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