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Hairong Kuang commented on HADOOP-1470:
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> Yeah, it is not used in ChecksumFS because it always seeks to checksum 
> boundary. 
No, ChecksumFS supports seeking to an arbitrary position. It is done by first 
seeking to the closest checksum boundary and then seeking to the final position 
by reading (final postion - boundary position) number of bytes.

Other comments:
>  final int readAvailable(); 
Not clear why we need this.

>  final setChecksum(Checksum sum);
Do we allow to change Checksum at any time? Otherwise, I do not think that this 
is neededed. Instead, the generic class should have a constructor with Checksum 
as a parameter.


> Rework FSInputChecker and FSOutputSummer to support checksum code sharing 
> between ChecksumFileSystem and block level crc dfs
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-1470
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1470
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: fs
>    Affects Versions: 0.12.3
>            Reporter: Hairong Kuang
>            Assignee: Hairong Kuang
>             Fix For: 0.14.0
>
>         Attachments: genericChecksum.patch, InputChecker-01.java
>
>
> Comment from Doug in HADOOP-1134:
> I'd prefer it if the CRC code could be shared with CheckSumFileSystem. In 
> particular, it seems to me that FSInputChecker and FSOutputSummer could be 
> extended to support pluggable sources and sinks for checksums, respectively, 
> and DFSDataInputStream and DFSDataOutputStream could use these. Advantages of 
> this are: (a) single implementation of checksum logic to debug and maintain; 
> (b) keeps checksumming as close to possible to data generation and use. This 
> patch computes checksums after data has been buffered, and validates them 
> before it is buffered. We sometimes use large buffers and would like to guard 
> against in-memory errors. The current checksum code catches a lot of such 
> errors. So we should compute checksums after minimal buffering (just 
> bytesPerChecksum, ideally) and validate them at the last possible moment 
> (e.g., through the use of a small final buffer with a larger buffer behind 
> it). I do not think this will significantly affect performance, and data 
> integrity is a high priority. 

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