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Craig Macdonald commented on HADOOP-4368:
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@Allen
The capacity operations on the namenode being discussed here are all
lightweight, simply fetching three instance variables from the NameNode.
@Doug
So there is an existing DiskStatus already in DistributedFileSystem, which has
a very similar API. Could this class be promoted to FileSystem?
> Superuser privileges required to do "df"
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> Key: HADOOP-4368
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4368
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: contrib/fuse-dfs, dfs
> Affects Versions: 0.18.1
> Reporter: Brian Bockelman
> Priority: Minor
> Original Estimate: 0.17h
> Remaining Estimate: 0.17h
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> super user privileges are required in DFS in order to get the file system
> statistics (FSNamesystem.java, getStats method). This means that when HDFS
> is mounted via fuse-dfs as a non-root user, "df" is going to return
> 16exabytes total and 0 free instead of the correct amount.
> As far as I can tell, there's no need to require super user privileges to see
> the file system size (and historically in Unix, this is not required).
> To fix this, simply comment out the privilege check in the getStats method.
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