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Uma Maheswara Rao G commented on HDFS-2006:
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We plan to hold the branch-2 merge until the distcp support ready. So, I will
just leave this JIRA open until the merge of branch-2?
> 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
> Fix For: 3.0.0
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> Attachments: ExtendedAttributes.html, HDFS-2006-Merge-1.patch,
> HDFS-2006-Merge-2.patch, HDFS-XAttrs-Design-1.pdf, HDFS-XAttrs-Design-2.pdf,
> HDFS-XAttrs-Design-3.pdf, Test-Plan-for-Extended-Attributes-1.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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