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Posted to hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org by "Andrew Wang (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2014/05/12 22:38:15 UTC

[jira] [Created] (HDFS-6373) Remove support for extended attributes on symlinks

Andrew Wang created HDFS-6373:
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             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}}.



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