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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HDFS-1751: ---------------------------------------------- {quote} Could these incidents have been prevented by judicious use of the existing namespace quota? My concern remains that this quota is implemented separately and in parallel from the main quota checking mechanism, adding more state, more paths and more opportunity for bugs. Could we accomplish the same thing by defining a default NSQuota for new directories and allowing this to be specified via configuration file or command line (as with the other quotas)? {quote} NSQuota on a directory limits the total numbers of items under that directory. So the default NSQuota proposal seems not working. > Intrinsic limits for HDFS files, directories > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-1751 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1751 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: data-node > Affects Versions: 0.22.0 > Reporter: Daryn Sharp > Assignee: Daryn Sharp > Fix For: 0.23.0 > > Attachments: HDFS-1751-2.patch, HDFS-1751-3.patch, HDFS-1751-4.patch, > HDFS-1751.patch > > > Enforce a configurable limit on: > the length of a path component > the number of names in a directory > The intention is to prevent a too-long name or a too-full directory. This is > not about RPC buffers, the length of command lines, etc. There may be good > reasons for those kinds of limits, but that is not the intended scope of this > feature. Consequently, a reasonable implementation might be to extend the > existing quota checker so that it faults the creation of a name that violates > the limits. This strategy of faulting new creation evades the problem of > existing names or directories that violate the limits. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira