Currently a subtree size is computed at the name node side as a side effect of the list command. Did you mean that we should have a seperate command?
Hairong -----Original Message----- From: Doug Cutting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:29 AM To: hadoop-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: [jira] Created: (HADOOP-713) dfs list operation is too expensive Hairong Kuang wrote: > "Dfs -du" is implemented using list requests. So I propose that we > support two types of list: one computing subtree size and one not. Put another way: there should be a namenode method that computes a subtree size: we don't want to compute these client-side. Doug
