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Aaron Fabbri commented on HADOOP-13208:
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[~ayousufi] {{listStatus()}} already retrieves file info in batches, and it is 
not recursive.  This patch is specific to a recursive list operation:  It uses 
the ability of s3 to list by key (path) prefix to optimize round trips to 
accomplish the equivalent of {{ls -R}}. 

> S3A listFiles(recursive=true) to do a bulk listObjects instead of walking the 
> pseudo-tree of directories
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-13208
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13208
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: fs/s3
>    Affects Versions: 2.8.0
>            Reporter: Steve Loughran
>            Assignee: Steve Loughran
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: HADOOP-13208-branch-2-001.patch, 
> HADOOP-13208-branch-2-007.patch, HADOOP-13208-branch-2-008.patch, 
> HADOOP-13208-branch-2-009.patch, HADOOP-13208-branch-2-010.patch, 
> HADOOP-13208-branch-2-011.patch, HADOOP-13208-branch-2-012.patch, 
> HADOOP-13208-branch-2-017.patch, HADOOP-13208-branch-2-018.patch
>
>   Original Estimate: 24h
>  Remaining Estimate: 24h
>
> A major cost in split calculation against object stores turns out be listing 
> the directory tree itself. That's because against S3, it takes S3A two HEADs 
> and two lists to list the content of any directory path (2 HEADs + 1 list for 
> getFileStatus(); the next list to query the contents).
> Listing a directory could be improved slightly by combining the final two 
> listings. However, a listing of a directory tree will still be 
> O(directories). In contrast, a recursive {{listFiles()}} operation should be 
> implementable by a bulk listing of all descendant paths; one List operation 
> per thousand descendants. 
> As the result of this call is an iterator, the ongoing listing can be 
> implemented within the iterator itself



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