[HADOOP-6813] Add a new newInstance method in FileSystem that takes a "user" as argument

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.21.0
• Component/s: fs
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: I've just committed this to 0.21.
• Assignee: Devaraj Das
• Reporter: Devaraj Das
• Created: 07/Jun/10 22:06
• Updated: 24/Aug/10 20:43
• Resolved: 07/Jun/10 22:56

Description

In order to implement HDFS-1000 for trunk, I need to have a newInstance API in FileSystem that takes a "user" as an argument.

Issue Links

• blocks: HDFS-1000 libhdfs needs to be updated to use the new UGI