IIUC, hive renames are from hive’s staging directory during write to final destination within table.
Why not set the default ACLs of staging directory to whatever expected, and then continue write remaining files. In this way even after rename you will have expected ACLs on the final files. Setting default ACLs on staging directory can be done using single RPC. -Vinay On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 8:08 AM, Xinli shang <sha...@uber.com.invalid> wrote: > Thanks Owen for your reply! As mentioned in the Jira, default ACLs don't > apply to rename. Any idea how rename can work without setting ACLs per > file? > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 7:25 PM Owen O'Malley <owen.omal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I'm very -1 on adding these semantics. > > > > When you create the table's directory, set the default ACL. That will > have > > exactly the effect that you are looking for without creating additional > > semantics. > > > > .. Owen > > > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 7:02 PM Xinli shang <sha...@uber.com.invalid> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-15638 and want to > > > collect feedback from the community. I know whenever changing the > > > permission model that follows POSIX model is never a trivial change. So > > > please comment on if you have concerns. For reading convenience, here > is > > a > > > copy of the ticket. > > > > > > *Problem*: Currently, when a user tries to accesses a file he/she needs > > the > > > permissions of it's parent and ancestors and the permission of that > file. > > > This is correct generally, but for Hive tables directories/files, all > the > > > files under a partition or even a table usually have the same > permissions > > > for the same set of ACL groups. Although the permissions and ACL groups > > are > > > the same, the writer still need to call setfacl() for every file to add > > > LDAP groups. This results in a huge amount of RPC calls to NN. HDFS has > > > default ACL to solve that but that only applies to create and copy, but > > not > > > apply to rename. However, in Hive ETL, rename is very common. > > > > > > *Proposal*: Add a 1-bit flag to directory inodes to indicate whether or > > not > > > it is a Hive table directory. If that flag is set, then all the > > > sub-directory and files under it will just use it's permission and ACL > > > groups settings. By doing this way, Hive ETL doesn't need to set > > > permissions at the file level. If that flag is not set(by default), > work > > as > > > before. To set/unset that flag, it would require admin privilege. > > > > > > -- > > > Xinli Shang > > > > > > > > -- > Xinli Shang > -- -Vinay
