I still do not see a valid reason to remove HDFS-2246 immediately. Some users may have insecure clusters and they don't want to change their configuration.
BTW, is Unix Domain Socket supported by all Unix-like systems? Does anyone can confirm that or show some counterexamples? Tsz-Wo ________________________________ From: Aaron T. Myers <a...@cloudera.com> To: "hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org" <hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org>; Tsz Wo Sze <szets...@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 6:40 PM Subject: Re: VOTE: HDFS-347 merge On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Tsz Wo Sze <szets...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Another > substantive concern is that HDFS-347 is not as well tested as > HDFS-2246. So, we should keep HDFS-2246 around for sometime and remove > it later. Is this the usual practice? > I'm proposing we do just that - keep HDFS-2246 around in branch-2 to let HDFS-347 soak a bit on trunk and then remove HDFS-2246 from branch-2 once we're confident in HDFS-347 and trunk adds Windows support. As Colin pointed out, this VOTE has always been about only merging this branch to trunk. -- Aaron T. Myers Software Engineer, Cloudera