[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2069?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12805984#action_12805984
]
dhruba borthakur commented on HBASE-2069:
-----------------------------------------
The getVisibileLength API is an HDFS API (and not a FileSystem API). This API
can be used to get the length of a file even when the writer of the file did
not close it cleanly. This happens when a region server dies suddenly. When a
hbase region server dies, a new region server can read upto the end of the
unclosed-HLog using this API.
> Use the new 'visible' length feature added by hdfs-814
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HBASE-2069
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2069
> Project: Hadoop HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: stack
> Fix For: 0.21.0
>
>
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
-
You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
