Having a customer which is troubled by a strange permission problem. They're using cdh4.1.2 with mr1 (not YARN). Following files are generated through an map-reduce job: drwxr-xr-x - hdfs supergroup 0 2013-04-12 09:28 / drwxrwxrwx - datameer hadoop 0 2013-07-10 15:18 /d drwxr-xr-x - datameer hadoop 0 2013-09-19 06:14 /d/w drwxr-xr-x - datameer hadoop 0 2013-09-30 04:16 /d/w/3 drwxr-xr-x - datameer hadoop 0 2013-09-30 04:16 /d/w/3/2 drwxr-xr-x - datameer hadoop 0 2013-09-30 04:16 /d/w/3/2/Hourly drwxr-xr-x - datameer hadoop 0 2013-09-30 04:10 /d/w/3/2/Hourly/data -rw-r--r-- 3 datameer hadoop 95363 2013-09-30 04:06 /d/w/3/2/Hourly/optimized_preview drwxr-xr-x - datameer hadoop 0 2013-09-30 04:10 /d/w/3/2/Hourly/preview  No calling FileSystem.exists(new Path("/d/w/3/2/Hourly/optimized_preview")) fails with  Permission denied: user=datameer, access=EXECUTE, inode="/d/w/3/2/Hourly/optimized_preview":datameer:hadoop:-rw-r--r-- at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSPermissionChecker.check(FSPermissionChecker.java:205) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSPermissionChecker.checkTraverse(FSPermissionChecker.java:161) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSPermissionChecker.checkPermission(FSPermissionChecker.java:128) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.checkPermission(FSNamesystem.java:4547) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.checkTraverse(FSNamesystem.java:4523) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getFileInfo(FSNamesystem.java:2796) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeRpcServer.getFileInfo(NameNodeRpcServer.java:664) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.getFileInfo(ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.java:643) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.proto.ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos$ClientNamenodeProtocol$2.callBlockingMethod(ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos.java:44128) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Server$ProtoBufRpcInvoker.call(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:453) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:898) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1693) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1689) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1332) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:1687)..." Which is kind of strange, since files itself can't have execute permissions (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3078) and all parent directories have execute permissions (even if they would not have, then there they would be the inode in the error message and not the file).   I couldn't reproduce the situation on an own cdh4.1.2 cluster, but the problems persists in the customer environment. The problem is only on certain files. Usually those files have been a different origin (most files in the /d/w/3/2/Hourly has been produced by  one map-reduce job, but the optimized_preview has been produced by a 2nd job and then moved to the folder afterwards.   Any clue what could cause that ? I suspecting its somehow related to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-9509, but in this case the file does exist!   Any help appreciated! Johannes ... View more