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Eli Collins commented on HADOOP-6893:
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Hey Owen,
FileContext#exists was removed in HADOOP-6678. The motivation from Hairong was
"in our production clusters, we often see that the number of getFileStatus
calls is multiple times of the open calls. If we remove isFile, isDirectory,
and exists from FileContext, users have to explicitly call getFileStatus first,
it is more likely that they will write more efficient code"
Adding AFS#exists that doesn't throw an exception seems reasonable, out of
curiosity what's the particular change you need this for?
Thanks,
Eli
> FileContext needs a method to test for existence of a file or directory.
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> Key: HADOOP-6893
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6893
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: fs
> Reporter: Owen O'Malley
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> FileContext is missing a method to ask if a file or directory exists.
> Currently the only mechanism is to use getFileStatus, which throws an
> exception if the file doesn't exist, which I don't think is an appropriate
> use of that method.
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