Re: Permission bit 12 in getFileInfo response

2016-09-19 Thread John Zhuge
Thanks Chris! Silly me, didn't look at "FsPermissionExtension". John Zhuge Software Engineer, Cloudera On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Chris Nauroth wrote: > Hello John, > > That is the ACL bit. The NameNode toggles on the ACL bit in getFileInfo > responses for inodes that have ACL entries

Re: Permission bit 12 in getFileInfo response

2016-09-19 Thread Chris Nauroth
Hello John, That is the ACL bit. The NameNode toggles on the ACL bit in getFileInfo responses for inodes that have ACL entries attached to them. On the client side, this results in calls to FsPermission#getAclBit returning true. The purpose of the ACL bit is to help client applications identi

Permission bit 12 in getFileInfo response

2016-09-19 Thread John Zhuge
Hi Gurus, Does anyone know the meaning of bit 12 in the permission field of "getFileInfo" response? To my understanding, the bit 9 is sticky bit, along with the lower 9 bits for user/group/other. In this following trace, the "perm" field is "4584", i.e., "10750" in oct: 16/09/15 15:54:56 TRACE i