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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-3941:
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> We might need a method for getting the supported algorithms of a file system.
If we remove the "algorithm" parameter to getFileChecksum() then each
FileSystem would simply return checksums using its native algorithm. When
these match, cross-filesystem copies would be checksummed. Later, if we have
filesystems that implement multiple checksum algorithms, we might consider
something more elaborate, but that seems sufficient for now, no?
> Extend FileSystem API to return file-checksums/file-digests
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> Key: HADOOP-3941
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3941
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: fs
> Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
> Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
> Attachments: 3941_20080818.patch, 3941_20080819.patch,
> 3941_20080819b.patch, 3941_20080820.patch, 3941_20080826.patch,
> 3941_20080827.patch
>
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> Suppose we have two files in two locations (may be two clusters) and these
> two files have the same size. How could we tell whether the content of them
> are the same?
> Currently, the only way is to read both files and compare the content of
> them. This is a very expensive operation if the files are huge.
> So, we would like to extend the FileSystem API to support returning
> file-checksums/file-digests.
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