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Chris Nauroth commented on HDFS-2006:
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Thanks for the updated design doc, Yi. This looks good and addresses almost
all of my questions at this point. Just one more:
bq. The number of XAttrs for a file/directory should have maximum limit.
Do you have any specific numbers in mind for limits yet? Do you know if there
is a common upper bound implemented by other file systems, like the ext family?
> ability to support storing extended attributes per file
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> Key: HDFS-2006
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2006
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: namenode
> Affects Versions: HDFS XAttrs (HDFS-2006)
> Reporter: dhruba borthakur
> Assignee: Yi Liu
> Attachments: HDFS-XAttrs-Design-1.pdf, HDFS-XAttrs-Design-2.pdf,
> xattrs.1.patch, xattrs.patch
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> It would be nice if HDFS provides a feature to store extended attributes for
> files, similar to the one described here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes.
> The challenge is that it has to be done in such a way that a site not using
> this feature does not waste precious memory resources in the namenode.
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