ability to support storing extended attributes per file -------------------------------------------------------
Key: HDFS-2006 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2006 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Improvement Components: name-node Reporter: dhruba borthakur 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira