It's not implemented for local file system (RawLocalFileSystem), see the javadoc from FileSystem:
* @return The file checksum. The default return value is null, * which indicates that no checksum algorithm is implemented * in the corresponding FileSystem. Given that LocalFileSystem extends ChecksumFileSystem it would be reasonable for it to implement it. Feel free to file a jira for that if you need it. Thanks, Eli On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Hans Uhlig <huh...@uhlisys.com> wrote: > This seems to return null always, despite the fact that it should return a > checksum for the file. Has this been disabled since the doc was written? >