Hi. Sure I will, it will just take some time, as current patch is against 0.20 and 2.0.0 and I'm going to add some more unit tests and make sure the patch conforms to requirements. Thanks.
Nikita On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Akira AJISAKA <ajisa...@oss.nttdata.co.jp>wrote: > # Added hdfs-dev@ > > Hi Nikita, > > I'm personally very interested in the functionality! > Please create a issue on ASF JIRA and attach your patch. > > Here is the documentation of creating a patch and attaching it. > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute > > Thanks, > Akira > > > (2014/04/25 2:09), Nikita Makeev wrote: > >> In my company we're using webhdfs a lot. One of usage pattern is exporting >> files from hdfs to external systems which was done before webhdfs by >> calling 'hadoop fs -text' to local filesystem and then transferring to >> final destination. We're using 'text' because of storing data on hdfs in >> sequence files and our external systems can't read them. We find webhdfs >> very handy, particularly because of very little overhead for starting up >> compared to 'hadoop fs', so we made a patch to make datanode capable of >> doing 'text' via webhdfs. Though I think our usage pattern is hardly >> common, I still asking the community, is there any interest in such >> functionality. >> >> SY, >> >> Nikita Makeev >> >> >
