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Suresh Srinivas commented on HADOOP-8409: ----------------------------------------- bq. In line with this, I spent quite a bit of time thinking about pros and cons to having Path object support backslash VS not. Both approaches have legitimate pros and cons. Once I sum them up on my end, I'll reply back. @Please also look at the issues raised in HADOOP-8139 and the reasons why we did not support windows paths on HDFS. > Address Hadoop path related issues on Windows > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-8409 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8409 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Components: fs, test, util > Affects Versions: 1.0.0 > Reporter: Ivan Mitic > Assignee: Ivan Mitic > Attachments: HADOOP-8409-branch-1-win.patch > > Original Estimate: 168h > Remaining Estimate: 168h > > There are multiple places in prod and test code where Windows paths are not > handled properly. From a high level this could be summarized with: > 1. Windows paths are not necessarily valid DFS paths (while Unix paths are) > 2. Windows paths are not necessarily valid URIs (while Unix paths are) > #1 causes a number of tests to fail because they implicitly assume that local > paths are valid DFS paths (by extracting the DFS test path from for example > "test.build.data" property) > #2 causes issues when URIs are directly created on path strings passed in by > the user -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira