[jira] [Commented] (HDFS-6373) Remove support for extended attributes on symlinks

[Yi Liu (JIRA)]

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Yi Liu commented on HDFS-6373:
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Thanks Andrew.
Let's remove XAttrFeature from INodeSysmlink, so symlinks don't have xattrs of 
their own.

In design doc we have 
{quote}
Symlinks do not have XAttrs of their own. Operations that modify the XAttrs of 
a sysmlink
instead modify the XAttr of the symlink’s target
{quote}

> Remove support for extended attributes on symlinks
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-6373
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6373
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: namenode
>            Reporter: Andrew Wang
>            Assignee: Charles Lamb
>
> Looking in the Linux source code, we see the following:
> http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.14.3/fs/xattr.c
> {code}
>   60        /*
>   61         * In the user.* namespace, only regular files and directories 
> can have
>   62         * extended attributes. For sticky directories, only the owner and
>   63         * privileged users can write attributes.
>   64         */
> {code}
> We should consider removing {{XAttrFeature}} from {{INodeSymlink}}.



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