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Raghu Angadi commented on HADOOP-3239:
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getFileInfo() used to return null. This was changed couple of months back
during fixes to various shell commands and APIs. I am not sure the actual
reason behind it, may be consistency. Returning null for non-existent files is
good.
> exists() calls logs FileNotFoundException in namenode log
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>
> Key: HADOOP-3239
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3239
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.17.0
> Reporter: lohit vijayarenu
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> exists() was modified to invoke getFileStatus() internally. But
> getFileStatus() throws FileNotFoundException for files which does not exists
> and this is logged in RPC$Server for each exists() call. One way to get rid
> of these messages is at the Name Node, catch FileNotFoundException and return
> null. In this case, RPC would not log it in namenode log. But at the client
> end we might have to check for null on all calls of getFileStatus(). Other
> option at client end is to construct FileNotFoundException() when
> getFileInfo() returns null.
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