[jira] [Created] (HDFS-7447) Number of maximum Acl entries on a File/Folder should be made user configurable than hardcoding .

[J.Andreina (JIRA)]

J.Andreina created HDFS-7447:
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             Summary: Number of maximum Acl entries on a File/Folder should be 
made user configurable than hardcoding .
                 Key: HDFS-7447
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7447
             Project: Hadoop HDFS
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: security
            Reporter: J.Andreina



By default on creating a folder1 will have 6 acl entries . On top of that 
assigning acl  on a folder1 exceeds 32 , then unable to assign acls for a 
group/user to folder1. 
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2014-11-20 18:55:06,553 ERROR [qtp1279235236-17 - /rolexml/role/modrole] Error 
occured while setting permissions for Resource:[ hdfs://hacluster/folder1 ] and 
Error message is : Invalid ACL: ACL has 33 entries, which exceeds maximum of 32.
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.AclTransformation.buildAndValidateAcl(AclTransformation.java:274)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.AclTransformation.mergeAclEntries(AclTransformation.java:181)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.unprotectedModifyAclEntries(FSDirectory.java:2771)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.modifyAclEntries(FSDirectory.java:2757)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.modifyAclEntries(FSNamesystem.java:7734)
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Here value 32 is hardcoded  , which can be made user configurable. 

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private static List buildAndValidateAcl(ArrayList aclBuilder)
        throws AclException
    {
        if(aclBuilder.size() > 32)
            throw new AclException((new StringBuilder()).append("Invalid ACL: 
ACL has ").append(aclBuilder.size()).append(" entries, which exceeds maximum of 
").append(32).append(".").toString());
:
:
}
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