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Suresh Srinivas commented on HADOOP-8409:
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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
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>
> 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
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