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Allen Wittenauer commented on HDFS-126:
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this is one of those things where i think it is acceptable to break existing
users, given proper release notes and enough warning. really. if we are
willing to break api's then breaking something as relatively minor as
permissions in the conf file does not seem like that big of deal.
perhaps this will be the jira that finally provides 'upgrade' notes instead of
just 'release' notes, like most real world operating systems.
> Permission configuration files should use octal and symbolic
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> Key: HDFS-126
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-126
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Allen Wittenauer
> Assignee: Jakob Homan
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> Currently, the settings for the default umask in Hadoop configuration files
> require the input format be in decimal. Considering that every admin in the
> world thinks of permissions in octal and/or symbolic format, the config files
> should really use those two formats and drop decimal.
> [... and, yes, I'm aware this breaks backwards compatibility. But in this
> case, I think that is perfectly acceptable.]
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