Hey Pete,
Actually, isn't this issue for the statfs call, not stat?
getStats returns the used/free/total space for the whole system.
Brian
On Oct 13, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Pete Wyckoff wrote:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2659 introduced needing
super
user to call getStats and was wondered why it was added since the
POSIX stat
method doesn't require super. this prevents us from correctly
implementing
the POSIX stat function: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4368
.
From man stat:
You do not need any access rights to the file to
get this information but you need search rights to all
directories
named in the path leading to the file.
Thanks, pete
