[HDFS-4704] Add a transient flag to file so that transient files won't be included in any snapshot

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: namenode
• Assignee: Tsz-wo Sze
• Reporter: Tsz-wo Sze
• Created: 16/Apr/13 23:13
• Updated: 22/Apr/13 20:17

Description

See the description HDFS-4529. We are going to implement (4) shown below:

(4) mark the files with a new transient flag in HDFS. The files with the new flag will not be included in any snapshot. Then, concat could remove the files as usual.

Issue Links

• is related to: HDFS-4529 Decide the semantic of concat with snapshots