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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-1283:
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> AFAIK UTF8 and BytesWritable serializations differ only in the type of the
> length field.
I think UTF8 may also use "modified UTF-8" when encoding Strings.
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/DataInput.html#modified-utf-8
Note that, for back-compatibility, we can still read files written with UTF8
once UTF8 is gone by using DataInput, since the format is identical. UTF8's
implementation was optimized, but should be equivalent.
> Eliminate internal UTF8 to String and vice versa conversions in the name-node.
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>
> Key: HADOOP-1283
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1283
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: dfs
> Affects Versions: 0.12.0
> Reporter: Konstantin Shvachko
> Assignee: Konstantin Shvachko
> Attachments: EliminateUTF8.patch
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> We have internal conversions of those two types inside name-node code. One
> example:
> NameNode.complete(String src, String clientName)
> then it calls
> FSNamesystem.completeFile(new UTF8(src), new UTF8(clientName));
> which in turn finally calls
> FSDirectory.addNode(path.toString(), newNode )
> and in another place
> FSDirectory.getNode(src.toString())
> So we have several conversions of the same parameter back and forth during
> computation.
> We should keep the parameter type consistent within different methods.
> The question is, which type should be used: String or Text.
> From previous discussions I remember that Text is more efficient in space and
> time for non ASCII
> data. Here we mostly deal with file names and network addresses, which are
> ASCII.
> Does it make sense to use Text in this case?
> UTF8 is also used as a key in two maps: pendingCreates and leases.
> This should be replaced too.
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