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Hadoop QA commented on HDFS-2006: --------------------------------- {color:red}-1 overall{color}. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12645209/HDFS-2006-Merge-2.patch against trunk revision . {color:green}+1 @author{color}. The patch does not contain any @author tags. {color:green}+1 tests included{color}. The patch appears to include 20 new or modified test files. {color:green}+1 javac{color}. The applied patch does not increase the total number of javac compiler warnings. {color:green}+1 javadoc{color}. There were no new javadoc warning messages. {color:green}+1 eclipse:eclipse{color}. The patch built with eclipse:eclipse. {color:green}+1 findbugs{color}. The patch does not introduce any new Findbugs (version 1.3.9) warnings. {color:green}+1 release audit{color}. The applied patch does not increase the total number of release audit warnings. {color:red}-1 core tests{color}. The patch failed these unit tests in hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs: org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.tools.offlineEditsViewer.TestOfflineEditsViewer {color:green}+1 contrib tests{color}. The patch passed contrib unit tests. Test results: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HDFS-Build/6916//testReport/ Console output: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HDFS-Build/6916//console This message is automatically generated. > 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: namenode > Affects Versions: HDFS XAttrs (HDFS-2006) > Reporter: dhruba borthakur > Assignee: Yi Liu > Attachments: ExtendedAttributes.html, HDFS-2006-Merge-1.patch, > HDFS-2006-Merge-2.patch, HDFS-XAttrs-Design-1.pdf, HDFS-XAttrs-Design-2.pdf, > HDFS-XAttrs-Design-3.pdf, Test-Plan-for-Extended-Attributes-1.pdf, > xattrs.1.patch, xattrs.patch > > > 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 was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)