Hi Devs,
ViewFileSystem by default tries to populate ugi information of mount point
based on the user who is running the command. For example if I execute
'hadoop fs -ls /' on '/' which happens to be a ViewFileSystem mountpoint,
then all mountpoint under '/' would who the permission and owner as 'lohit'
For example this check is coming from ViewFileSystem.java.
public FileStatus getFileStatus(Path f) throws IOException {
checkPathIsSlash(f);
return new FileStatus(0, true, 0, 0, creationTime, creationTime,
PERMISSION_RRR, ugi.getUserName(), ugi.getGroupNames()[0],
new Path(theInternalDir.fullPath).makeQualified(
myUri, null));
In our clusters we do not create user accounts on worker nodes. Now if any
Map or Reduce code does getFileStatus on mountpoint they fail when it tries
to fetch ugi.getGroupNames()[0] with NPE. One option we are thinking is to
populate this with 'nobody':'nogroup' kind of string if we cannot resolve
to user/group name instead of failing with NPE. What do you guys think
about this approach. Any other ideas/suggestion?
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Have a Nice Day!
Lohit
