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Suresh Srinivas commented on HDFS-4258:
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bq. I think supporting file descriptor behavior is a great idea (we've
internally talked about this). Until we do, I think the lease should be
revoked. My concerns with fd behavior would be the ever pervasive "two wrongs
make a right" where users are relying unintentionally on renames breaking
writers, and ensuring we get the security right to avoid attacks probing for
fileids.
Aaron and Daryn, there is no security issue related to being able to guess
fileids. It is nothing different from being able to guess valid paths in HDFS.
I posted a proposal to HDFS-4489. Please take a look.
> Rename of Being Written Files
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>
> Key: HDFS-4258
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4258
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: hdfs-client, namenode
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0
> Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
> Assignee: Brandon Li
> Attachments: HDFS-4258.patch, HDFS-4258.patch, HDFS-4258.patch,
> HDFS-4258.patch
>
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> When a being written file or it's ancestor directories is renamed, the path
> in the file lease is also renamed. Then the writer of the file usually will
> fail since the file path in the writer is not updated.
> Moreover, I think there is a bug as follow:
> # Client writes 0's to F_0="/foo/file" and writes 1's to F_1="/bar/file" at
> the same time.
> # Rename /bar to /baz
> # Rename /foo to /bar
> Then, writing to F_0 will fail since /foo/file does not exist anymore but
> writing to F_1 may succeed since /bar/file exits as a different file. In
> such case, the content of /bar/file could be partly 0's and partly 1's.
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