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Sanjay Radia commented on HADOOP-6585:
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> Therefore I propose that we do not modify the isDir.
That has also always been my position: not modify isDir() but simply deprecate 
and add a new isDirectory().
 When we added symlinks,  isDir became ambiguous. 
Good news is that  by time folks add actual symlinks to their namespaces,  
applications have had a chance to
move to  isDirectory(). 

> Add FileStatus#isDirectory and isFile
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-6585
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6585
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: fs
>    Affects Versions: 0.21.0, 0.22.0
>            Reporter: Eli Collins
>            Assignee: Eli Collins
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 0.21.0, 0.22.0
>
>         Attachments: hadoop-6585-1.patch, hadoop-6585-2.patch, 
> hadoop-6585-3.patch
>
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> Per Sanjay's suggestion in HADOOP-6421 let's deprecate FileStatus#isDir() and 
> add isDirectory() and isFile() to compliment isSymlink. Currently clients 
> assume !isDir() implies a file, which is no longer true with symlinks. I'll 
> file a separate jira to change the various uses of !isDir() to be isFile() or 
> isFile() or isSymlink() as appropriate.

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