[HDFS-6959] Make the HDFS home directory location customizable.

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.6.0
• Labels: supportability
• Target Version/s: 2.6.0
• Assignee: Yongjun Zhang
• Reporter: Kevin Odell
• Created: 10/Feb/14 17:53
• Updated: 17/Dec/14 19:47
• Resolved: 04/Sep/14 02:36

Description

The path is currently hardcoded:
public Path getHomeDirectory()

{ return makeQualified(new Path("/user/" + dfs.ugi.getShortUserName())); }

It would be nice to have that as a customizable value.

Thank you

Issue Links

• duplicates: HDFS-593 Support for getting user home dir from server side
• duplicates: HDFS-4634 Make HDFS home directory configurable per user
• is duplicated by: HDFS-6857 Configuration key fs.homeDir is not taken into consideration when returning a user's home directory
• is related to: HADOOP-10944 AbstractFileSystem may not return correct home directory