On Thursday, March 17, 2011, Marc Sturlese <marc.sturl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any way to check if a seqfile is corrupted without iterate over all > its keys/values till it crashes? > I've seen that I can get an IOException when opening it or an IOException > reading the X key/value (depending on when it was corrupted). > Thanks in advance > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/check-if-a-sequenceFile-is-corrupted-tp2693230p2693230.html > Sent from the Hadoop lucene-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
No it does not seem possible to know if a file is damaged without reading it (logically). Hadoop dfs -text xxxxxx ; echo $? Should give you non zero but that still involves reading the file.
