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Konstantin Shvachko commented on HDFS-2006: ------------------------------------------- Nice for what? > ability to support storing extended attributes per file > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-2006 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2006 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: name-node > Reporter: dhruba borthakur > Assignee: dhruba borthakur > > It would be nice if HDFS provides a feature to store extended attributes for > files, similar to the one described here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes. > The challenge is that it has to be done in such a way that a site not using > this feature does not waste precious memory resources in the namenode. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira