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Suresh Srinivas commented on HADOOP-6240: ----------------------------------------- I still do not understand why protected method is not an option. BTW option (b), assuming means FileContext uses current FileSystem.rename() will result in the same issue. When we want to fix the semantics of FileContext.rename(), we will have same issues of backward compatibility. Personally I am not in favor of doing rename non-atomically. > Rename operation is not consistent between different implementations of > FileSystem > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-6240 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6240 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Components: fs > Reporter: Suresh Srinivas > Assignee: Suresh Srinivas > Fix For: 0.21.0 > > > The rename operation has many scenarios that are not consistently implemented > across file systems. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.