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Hudson commented on HADOOP-3981: -------------------------------- Integrated in Hadoop-Common-trunk #55 (See [http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Hadoop-Common-trunk/55/]) Delete the empty file src/core/org/apache/hadoop/fs/LengthFileChecksum.java which was removed by . > Need a distributed file checksum algorithm for HDFS > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-3981 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3981 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > Fix For: 0.19.0 > > Attachments: 3981_20080909.patch, 3981_20080910.patch, > 3981_20080910b.patch, 3981_20080912.patch > > > Traditional message digest algorithms, like MD5, SHA1, etc., require reading > the entire input message sequentially in a central location. HDFS supports > large files with multiple tera bytes. The overhead of reading the entire > file is huge. A distributed file checksum algorithm is needed for HDFS. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.