diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/site/markdown/tools/hadoop-aws/s3guard.md b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/site/markdown/tools/hadoop-aws/s3guard.md index 5219afd1228..2ccf4b8c3b1 100644 --- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/site/markdown/tools/hadoop-aws/s3guard.md +++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/site/markdown/tools/hadoop-aws/s3guard.md @@ -14,13 +14,11 @@ # S3Guard: Consistency and Metadata Caching for S3A -**Experimental Feature** - ## Overview -*S3Guard* is an experimental feature for the S3A client of the S3 object store, +*S3Guard* is a feature for the S3A client of the S3 object store, which can use a (consistent) database as the store of metadata about objects in an S3 bucket. @@ -48,8 +46,6 @@ For links to early design documents and related patches, see *Important* -* S3Guard is experimental and should be considered unstable. - * While all underlying data is persisted in S3, if, for some reason, the S3Guard-cached metadata becomes inconsistent with that in S3, queries on the data may become incorrect. @@ -182,8 +178,7 @@ recommended that you leave the default setting here: false ``` - -Setting this to `true` is currently an experimental feature. +. Note that a MetadataStore MAY persist this bit in the directory listings. (Not MUST).