Paul Sheer wrote:
Sorry if I gave the impression that Hadoop ought to support this feature
in general.
No, I was only asking about my own setup and I'm happy to maintain my own
private branch.
You didn't imply that Hadoop ought to support it. But maintaining your
own private branch is a bad idea long-term, and you'll not get a lot of
help here for doing that, since the goal here is to build a shared
version that we can all support together.
Can you help by telling me if changes to INode.java are all the changes
I need to make?
I don't know. There's a good chance it's not the only change you'd need
to make, and there's a good chance that folks might later make other
changes that break your version in strange and hard-to-detect ways. So,
if you do decide to maintain your own branch, I strongly suggest you
also write a thorough test suite for this feature.
Cheers,
Doug
