[HDFS-438] Improve help message for quotas

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.20.1, 0.21.0
• Assignee: Raghu Angadi
• Reporter: Raghu Angadi
• Created: 11/Jun/09 18:00
• Updated: 24/Aug/10 20:48
• Resolved: 24/Jun/09 21:47

Description

There are a few issues with quotas help messages.

Space Quotas :

1. It is not clear to the users that space quota counts replication as well. i.e. with a replication of 3, user needs 3GB of quota to be able to write 1GB file. should makes this explicit in the message
2. There is a cut-n-paste error in the help message.

All quota commands :

• user needs to type 'dfsadmin -help -setQuota' (note '-'before setQuota), where as for the rest of the dfsadmin (and fs) commands '-' is not required. Should make this consistent.

Since this is documentation only fix, I would like to commit it to 0.20.1 also.