[HDFS-15703] Don't generate edits for set operations that are no-op

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.3.1, 3.4.0, 3.2.3
• Component/s: namenode
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Ahmed Hussein
• Reporter: Ahmed Hussein
• Created: 01/Dec/20 14:10
• Updated: 10/Jun/21 07:44
• Resolved: 03/Dec/20 16:49

Description

daryn reported that setting the owner, group, or permissions to what it already is will generate an unnecessary edit. It should not do this to avoid performance issues when users unnecessarily run routine jobs to change the group and permissions of a project tree.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2508