Hi, There is a method getChecksumFile(Path file) that gives this info. You could refer the javadoc here: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/ChecksumFileSystem.html
Hope this helped. Regards, Krishnakumar. On Jul 31, 2010, at 10:10 PM, Gautam Singaraju wrote: > Hello all, > > From HDFS Architecture page > (http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/hdfs_design.html): "When > a client creates an HDFS file, it computes a checksum of each block of > the file and stores these checksums in a separate hidden file in the > same HDFS namespace." > > Is there a way to access this data? > > --- > Gautam
