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Rushabh S Shah commented on HDFS-13009: --------------------------------------- [~xiaochen], [~andrew.wang]: please let me know what you guys think. > Creation of Encryption zone should succeed even if directory is not empty. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-13009 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-13009 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: encryption > Reporter: Rushabh S Shah > Assignee: Rushabh S Shah > > Currently we have a restriction that creation of encryption zone can be done > only on an empty directory. > This jira is to remove that restriction. > Motivation: > New customers who wants to start using Encryption zone can make an existing > directory encrypted. > They will be able to read the old data as it is and will be decrypting the > newly written data. > Internally we have many customers asking for this feature. > Currently they have to ask for more space quota, encrypt the old data. > This will make their life much more easier. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: hdfs-issues-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: hdfs-issues-h...@hadoop.apache.org