On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Tsz Wo Sze <szets...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> HdfsAdmin is also for admin operations. However, createSnapshot etc > methods aren't. > I agree that they're not administrative operations in the sense that they don't strictly require super user privilege, but they are "administrative" in the sense that they will most-often be used by those administering HDFS. The HdfsAdmin class should not be construed to contain only operations which require super user privilege, even though that happens to be the case right now. It's intended as just a public API for HDFS-specific operations. Regardless, my point is not necessarily that these operations should go into the HdfsAdmin class, but rather that they shouldn't go into the FileSystem class, since the snapshots API doesn't seem to me like it will generalize to other FileSystem implementations. -- Aaron T. Myers Software Engineer, Cloudera
