FsShell#cat should avoid calling unecessary getFileStatus before opening a file to read ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-6569 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6569 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Improvement Components: fs Reporter: Hairong Kuang Assignee: Hairong Kuang Fix For: 0.22.0 Since FileSystem#open throws a FileNotFoundException when the file to be read does not exist, there is no need to check if the file is a directory or not before open. In case of HDFS, this could reduce one getFileInfo RPC to NameNode. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.