[HDFS-7568] Support immutability (Write-once-read-many) in HDFS

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.0
• Component/s: namenode
• Assignee: Suresh Srinivas
• Reporter: Suresh Srinivas
• Created: 23/Dec/14 21:24
• Updated: 26/Feb/15 19:31

Description

Many regulatory compliance requires storage to support WORM functionality to protect sensitive data from being modified or deleted. This jira proposes adding that feature to HDFS.

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Issue Links

• relates to: HDFS-3154 Add a notion of immutable/mutable files