Details
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Bug
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Incompatible change, Reviewed
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Support for hftp and hsftp has been removed. They have superseded by webhdfs and swebhdfs.
Description
Currently hftp / hsftp only provide a strict subset of functionality that webhdfs / swebhdfs offer. Notably, hftp / hsftp do not support writes and HA namenodes. Maintaining two piece of code with similar functionality introduce unnecessary work.
Webhdfs has been around since Hadoop 1.0 therefore moving forward with webhdfs does not seem to cause any significant migration issues.
This jira proposes to deprecate hftp / hsftp in branch-2 and remove them in trunk.