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Allen Wittenauer updated HDFS-240: ---------------------------------- Description: When reviewing the consequences of Hadoop-6017 (the name system could not start because a file name interpreted as a regex caused a fault), the discussion turned to improving the test set for file system functions by broadening the set of names used for testing. Presently, HDFS allows any name without a slash. _Should the space of names be restricted?_ If most funny names are unintended, maybe the user would benefit from an early error indication. A contrary view is that restricting names is so 20th-century. Should be or shouldn't we? was: When reviewing the consequences of Hadoop:6017 (the name system could not start because a file name interpreted as a regex caused a fault), the discussion turned to improving the test set for file system functions by broadening the set of names used for testing. Presently, HDFS allows any name without a slash. _Should the space of names be restricted?_ If most funny names are unintended, maybe the user would benefit from an early error indication. A contrary view is that restricting names is so 20th-century. Should be or shouldn't we? > Should HDFS restrict the names used for files? > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-240 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-240 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Robert Chansler > > When reviewing the consequences of Hadoop-6017 (the name system could not > start because a file name interpreted as a regex caused a fault), the > discussion turned to improving the test set for file system functions by > broadening the set of names used for testing. Presently, HDFS allows any name > without a slash. _Should the space of names be restricted?_ If most funny > names are unintended, maybe the user would benefit from an early error > indication. A contrary view is that restricting names is so 20th-century. > Should be or shouldn't we? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)