[HADOOP-10514] Common side changes to support HDFS extended attributes (HDFS-2006)

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: HDFS XAttrs (HDFS-2006)
• Fix Version/s: 2.5.0
• Component/s: fs
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Yi Liu
• Reporter: Uma Maheswara Rao G
• Created: 17/Apr/14 02:33
• Updated: 03/Sep/14 20:36
• Resolved: 13/Jun/14 01:07

Description

This is an umbrella issue for tracking all Hadoop Common changes required to support HDFS extended attributes implementation

Issue Links

• is part of: HDFS-2006 ability to support storing extended attributes per file
• relates to: HADOOP-10561 Copy command with preserve option should handle Xattrs

Sub-Tasks

• Extended attributes definition and FileSystem APIs for extended attributes.: Resolved
• FsShell commands for extended attributes.: Resolved
• Javadoc and other small fixes for extended attributes in hadoop-common: Resolved
• Shift XAttr value encoding code out for reuse.: Resolved
• Improve FsShell xattr error handling and other fixes: Resolved
• Small fixes for XAttrCommands and test.: Resolved
• Remove CRLF for xattr value base64 encoding for better display.: Resolved