steveloughran commented on pull request #2584:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/2584#issuecomment-764587055


   Thomas, to clarify a bit more
   
   yes, an FS can choose to ignore an option, -but it must recognise the option 
and so make a conscious decision "this doesn't matter"
   
   * so with the standard length/read policy options, an FS can concude "I see 
that and don't support it", and just ignore it -a decision made on an 
option-by-option basis. 
   * if something unrecognised comes in as .must() the FS must raise an 
exception "I don't recognise that".
   * if something it does recognise as a .must() which it knows it doesn't 
support and which it MUST be able to, then it MUST raise an exception.
   
   Example: vectored IO will only work if the FS supports seek, which ftp 
doesn't. Assuming we add an option to say "I Want vectored IO" then all 
filesystems will get this out the box as a well known-and-supported feature, 
but ftp will need some explicit code to say "fail if vectored IO is requested"


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