Ahmad,

On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Ahmad Humayun wrote:

Hello everyone,

Apparently no one knew the answer to my question :( Am I looking at things
the right way or nobody has compared the libhdfs code to hdfs? Or am I
completely wrong, libhdfs and hdfs has no difference at all?


libhdfs is a JNI-based wrapper around hdfs, so it invokes the underlying java apis via JNI. It offers most of the functionality of hdfs, but I'm not sure it has everything.

The hdfs java api is here:
http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/r0.16.0/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/ FileSystem.html

Arun

regards,

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Ahmad Humayun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

Hi there,

I was just playing with libhdfs and couldnt help see the differences it
has with the hadoop.dfs package. The hadoop.dfs seems to be much more
intensive then ifs c++ counterpart, libhdfs, on the amount of functionality it offers. Hmm.. am I wrong here?....am I looking at things the wrong way? Is libhdfs is cut-down part of hadoop.dfs. If so, what functionality I'll
miss out on by using libhdfs.

Which files in the hadoop.dfs package provide similar functions as
libhdfs. In other words where in the dfs package I should look for an
"apples to apples" comparison with the libhdfs.


thanks,
--
Ahmad Humayun
Research Assistant
Computer Science Dpt., LUMS
+92 321 4457315




--
Ahmad Humayun
Research Assistant
Computer Science Dpt., LUMS
+92 321 4457315

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