Andrew Wang created HDFS-6373: --------------------------------- Summary: Remove support for extended attributes on symlinks Key: HDFS-6373 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6373 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Sub-task Reporter: Andrew Wang
Looking in the Linux source code, we see the following: http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.14.3/fs/xattr.c {code} 60 /* 61 * In the user.* namespace, only regular files and directories can have 62 * extended attributes. For sticky directories, only the owner and 63 * privileged users can write attributes. 64 */ {code} We should consider removing {{XAttrFeature}} from {{INodeSymlink}}. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)