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shv edited comment on HADOOP-1759 at 8/22/07 5:15 PM:
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This is about saving bytes.
Using Text as an object with a length field will add 32 bytes (28 as Sameer
calculated + padding) for each name.
For regular (ascii) file names String and Text have almost the same memory
overhead.
was (Author: shv):
This is about saving bytes.
Using Text as an object with a length field will add 24 bytes for each name.
For regular (ascii) file names String and Text have almost the same memory
overhead.
> File name should be represented by a byte array instead of a String
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> Key: HADOOP-1759
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1759
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: dfs
> Affects Versions: 0.14.0
> Reporter: Konstantin Shvachko
> Assignee: Konstantin Shvachko
> Fix For: 0.15.0
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> Attachments: byteName.patch
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> This patch changes INode.name type to byte[], as outlined in HADOOP-1687 (4).
> I submit it as a separate patch since it does not touch a lot of code, just
> INode.java
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