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Rushabh S Shah commented on HDFS-12907:
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Th failed test has nothing to do with my patch. The only change from previous 
patch is fixing whitespace warnings.
TestRetryCacheWithHA#testUpdatePipeline is tracked by HDFS-7524.


> Allow read-only access to reserved raw for non-superusers
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-12907
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-12907
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: namenode
>    Affects Versions: 2.6.0
>            Reporter: Daryn Sharp
>            Assignee: Rushabh S Shah
>         Attachments: HDFS-12907.001.patch, HDFS-12907.002.patch, 
> HDFS-12907.003.patch, HDFS-12907.004.patch, HDFS-12907.patch
>
>
> HDFS-6509 added a special /.reserved/raw path prefix to access the raw file 
> contents of EZ files.  In the simplest sense it doesn't return the FE info in 
> the {{LocatedBlocks}} so the dfs client doesn't try to decrypt the data.  
> This facilitates allowing tools like distcp to copy raw bytes.
> Access to the raw hierarchy is restricted to superusers.  This seems like an 
> overly broad restriction designed to prevent non-admins from munging the EZ 
> related xattrs.  I believe we should relax the restriction to allow 
> non-admins to perform read-only operations.  Allowing non-superusers to 
> easily read the raw bytes will be extremely useful for regular users, esp. 
> for enabling webhdfs client-side encryption.



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