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Hudson commented on HADOOP-3941:
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Integrated in Hadoop-trunk #595 (See 
[http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Hadoop-trunk/595/])

> Extend FileSystem API to return file-checksums/file-digests
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 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
>             Fix For: 0.19.0
>
>         Attachments: 3941_20080818.patch, 3941_20080819.patch, 
> 3941_20080819b.patch, 3941_20080820.patch, 3941_20080826.patch, 
> 3941_20080827.patch, 3941_20080904.patch
>
>
> 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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