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Uma Maheswara Rao G updated HDFS-2006: -------------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed Fix Version/s: 2.5.0 Hadoop Flags: Reviewed (was: Incompatible change) Status: Resolved (was: Patch Available) I have merged this to Branch-2. Resolving this issue on merging to branch-2. Thanks a lot for the great work Yi!. Also Thanks a lot to all who reviewed the jiras under HDFS-2006. > 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 > Fix For: 3.0.0, 2.5.0 > > Attachments: ExtendedAttributes.html, HDFS-2006-Branch-2-Merge.patch, > 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)