Suresh Srinivas created HDFS-6432: ------------------------------------- Summary: Add snapshot related APIs to webhdfs Key: HDFS-6432 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6432 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: namenode Reporter: Suresh Srinivas
The webhdfs interface is used by many external tools to interface with HDFS independent of java based hdfs client. Many data management tools can use snapshot capability to snapshot the data on the file system and use it for purposes such as creating consistent copy, replication, and recovery. This jira proposes to expose the following APIs in webhdfs: # createSnapshot # deleteSnapshot # renameSnapshot -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)