Thanks Vinay and Ravi for reply. Yes, since branch-1 behavior is same. Would like to know whether it’s missed/purposefully kept?
If it is not intended, Shall I raise Jira and remove this permission checks..? --Brahma Reddy Battula From: Ravi Prakash [mailto:ravihad...@gmail.com] Sent: 09 August 2017 07:38 To: Vinayakumar B Cc: Brahma Reddy Battula; hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: When permission is disabled, why setOwner() && setPermission() still check the permission? 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<mailto: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<mailto: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 > >