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Hairong Kuang commented on HADOOP-2528:
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>Perhaps we should add a utility method that checks the writability of a
>directory by creating and removing an empty file.
I like the idea. It should be more efficient that we create a directory and
then delete it.
In this particular jira, is it OK that we create the output directory by the
job client? So the job submission can fail if the user does not have the
permission to create the output directory.
> check permissions for job inputs and outputs
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> Key: HADOOP-2528
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2528
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mapred
> Reporter: Doug Cutting
> Fix For: 0.16.0
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> Attachments: HADOOP-2528-0.patch, HADOOP-2528-1.patch
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> On job submission, filesystem permissions should be checked to ensure that
> the input directory is readable and that the output directory is writable.
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