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Chris Douglas commented on HDFS-6984:
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Thanks, [~andrew.wang]! I'll commit this shortly.
I filed HDFS-12250 to clean up some of the deprecation warnings.
bq. Is the release note on this JIRA up to date? There are also misc
improvements like removing the acl/enc/ec bits from the WebHDFS AclStatus that
we could call out.
Sure, I'll update it.
bq. Based on code inspection it looks like the wire-format changes are
compatible, but it'd be good if you could comment on manual testing
As we discussed earlier, including these bits in the AclStatus seemed
accidental. I can try a few operations with an old client to make sure there
are no errors. I don't have access to environments where these APIs would be
stressed.
> In Hadoop 3, make FileStatus serialize itself via protobuf
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> Key: HDFS-6984
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6984
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0-alpha1
> Reporter: Colin P. McCabe
> Assignee: Colin P. McCabe
> Labels: BB2015-05-TBR
> Attachments: HDFS-6984.001.patch, HDFS-6984.002.patch,
> HDFS-6984.003.patch, HDFS-6984.004.patch, HDFS-6984.005.patch,
> HDFS-6984.006.patch, HDFS-6984.007.patch, HDFS-6984.008.patch,
> HDFS-6984.009.patch, HDFS-6984.010.patch, HDFS-6984.011.patch,
> HDFS-6984.012.patch, HDFS-6984.013.patch, HDFS-6984.014.patch,
> HDFS-6984.015.patch, HDFS-6984.nowritable.patch
>
>
> FileStatus was a Writable in Hadoop 2 and earlier. Originally, we used this
> to serialize it and send it over the wire. But in Hadoop 2 and later, we
> have the protobuf {{HdfsFileStatusProto}} which serves to serialize this
> information. The protobuf form is preferable, since it allows us to add new
> fields in a backwards-compatible way. Another issue is that already a lot of
> subclasses of FileStatus don't override the Writable methods of the
> superclass, breaking the interface contract that read(status.write) should be
> equal to the original status.
> In Hadoop 3, we should just make FileStatus serialize itself via protobuf so
> that we don't have to deal with these issues. It's probably too late to do
> this in Hadoop 2, since user code may be relying on the existing FileStatus
> serialization there.
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