[HDFS-6463] Clarify behavior of AclStorage#createFsPermissionForExtendedAcl in comments.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.5.0
• Component/s: namenode
• Target Version/s: 2.5.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Chris Nauroth
• Reporter: Aaron Myers
• Created: 29/May/14 01:33
• Updated: 03/Sep/14 20:34
• Resolved: 29/May/14 23:10

Description

When setting ACLs for a file or directory, it's possible for the resulting FsPermission object's group entry to be set incorrectly, in particular it will be set to the mask entry. More details in the first comment of this JIRA.

Thanks to szehon for identifying this issue.