I agree! I don't know of any one who doesn't use permissions. This was probably a feature flag that never got removed.
On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 3:29 AM, Vinayakumar B <vinayakum...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Brahma, > > Thanks for bringing this up. > > According to history of git, there is no historical reasons found for me. > May be someone with branch-1 experience, can answer this ..? > > -Vinay > > On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 6:50 PM, Brahma Reddy Battula < > brahmareddy.batt...@huawei.com> wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > why the "dfs.permissions.enabled" flag was not considered for this > > setOwner() and setPermission() check..? > > > > and why extra super user required for setOwner()? is the check required > > even in case of permissions disabled? > > > > Any idea on this..? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > Brahma Reddy Battula > > > > >