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Daryn Sharp commented on HDFS-4704:
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This would fit nicely into adding xattr support for hdfs. If we are going to
add a attribute, we may as well make it extensible for future attributes.
> Add a transient flag to file so that transient files won't be included in any
> snapshot
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> Key: HDFS-4704
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4704
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: namenode
> Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
> Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
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> See the description HDFS-4529. We are going to implement (4) shown below:
> (4) mark the files with a new transient flag in HDFS. The files with the new
> flag will not be included in any snapshot. Then, concat could remove the
> files as usual.
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