Colin, For the record, the last email in the previous thread in ended with the following comment from Nicholas: > It is great to hear that you agree to keep HDFS-2246. Please as well address my comments posted on HDFS-347 and let me know once you have posted a new patch on HDFS-347.
I did not see any response (unless I missed it). Can you please address it? Regards, Suresh On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Colin McCabe <cmcc...@alumni.cmu.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > I think it's time to merge the HDFS-347 branch back to trunk. It's been > under > review and testing for several months, and provides both a performance > advantage, and the ability to use short-circuit local reads without > compromising system security. > > Previously, we tried to merge this and the objection was brought up that we > should keep the old, insecure short-circuit local reads around so that > platforms for which secure SCR had not yet been implemented could use it > (e.g. Windows). This has been addressed-- see HDFS-4538 for details. > Suresh has also volunteered to maintain the insecure SCR code until secure > SCR can be implemented for Windows. > > Please cast your vote by EOD Monday 4/8. > > best, > Colin > -- http://hortonworks.com/download/
