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Jerry He commented on HBASE-15790: ---------------------------------- Hmm. My impression is that only hdfs superuser can chown, or the root in the old Unix world, with some specific exceptions. But your UT passed ... > Force "hbase" ownership on bulkload > ----------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-15790 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15790 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Components: regionserver > Affects Versions: 2.0.0, 1.2.1, 1.1.4, 0.98.19 > Reporter: Matteo Bertozzi > Assignee: Matteo Bertozzi > Priority: Minor > Attachments: HBASE-15790-v0.patch, HBASE-15790-v1.patch, > HBASE-15790-v2.patch > > > When a user different than "hbase" bulkload files, in general we end up with > files owned by a user different than hbase. sometimes this causes problems > with hbase not be able to move files around archiving/deleting. > A simple solution is probably to change the ownership of the files to "hbase" > during bulkload. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)