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Todd Lipcon commented on HADOOP-2366: ------------------------------------- I think this patch changes the behavior of getStrings when the configured value is the empty string "": {noformat} bsh % System.out.println("".split("\\s*,\\s*").length); 1 bsh % System.out.println("".split("\\s*,\\s*")[0]); bsh % import java.util.StringTokenizer; bsh % StringTokenizer tk = new StringTokenizer("", ","); bsh % System.out.println(tk.hasMoreTokens()); false {noformat} maybe the condition just needs the additional !str.trim().equals("") > Space in the value for dfs.data.dir can cause great problems > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-2366 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2366 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Bug > Components: conf > Reporter: Ted Dunning > Assignee: Todd Lipcon > Attachments: HADOOP-2366.patch > > > The following configuration causes problems: > <property> > <name>dfs.data.dir</name> > <value>/mnt/hstore2/hdfs, /home/foo/dfs</value> > <description> > Determines where on the local filesystem an DFS data node should store its > bl > ocks. If this is a comma-delimited list of directories, then data will be > stor > ed in all named directories, typically on different devices. Directories > that > do not exist are ignored. > </description> > </property> > The problem is that the space after the comma causes the second directory for > storage to be " /home/foo/dfs" which is in a directory named <SPACE> which > contains a sub-dir named "home" in the hadoop datanodes default directory. > This will typically cause the user's home partition to fill, but will be very > hard for the user to understand since a directory with a whitespace name is > hard to understand. > My proposed solution would be to trimLeft all path names from this and > similar property after splitting on comma. This still allows spaces in file > and directory names but avoids this problem. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.