Re: Heads up - 2.0.5-beta

2013-05-03 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
Hi Arun and Suresh, I am glad my choice of words attracted your attention. I consider this important for the project otherwise I wouldn't waste everybody's time. You tend reacting on a latest message taken out of context, which does not reveal full picture. I'll try here to summarize my proposal a

Re: Heads up - 2.0.5-beta

2013-05-03 Thread Robert Evans
I agree that "destructive" is not the correct word to describe features like snapshots and windows support. However, I also agree with Konstantin that any large feature will have a destabilizing effect on the code base, even if it is done on a branch and thoroughly tested before being merged in. H

Re: DistributedFileSystem.listStatus() - Why does it do partial listings then assemble?

2013-05-03 Thread Steve Loughran
On 2 May 2013 09:28, Todd Lipcon wrote: > Hi Brad, > > The reasoning is that the NameNode locking is somewhat coarse grained. In > older versions of Hadoop, before it worked this way, we found that listing > large directories (eg with 100k+ files) could end up holding the namenode's > lock for a

[jira] [Created] (HDFS-4794) Browsing filesystem via webui throws kerberos exception when NN service RPC is enabled in a secure cluster

2013-05-03 Thread Benoy Antony (JIRA)
Benoy Antony created HDFS-4794: -- Summary: Browsing filesystem via webui throws kerberos exception when NN service RPC is enabled in a secure cluster Key: HDFS-4794 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4794

[jira] [Created] (HDFS-4795) backport UTF8 encoding fixes to branch-1

2013-05-03 Thread Chris Nauroth (JIRA)
Chris Nauroth created HDFS-4795: --- Summary: backport UTF8 encoding fixes to branch-1 Key: HDFS-4795 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4795 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug