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Hairong Kuang commented on HDFS-878:
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For 1, as I commented on HDFS-879, I do not think HDFS-879 is a good idea.
For 2, it might be better to expose isUnderConstruction information through
DFSOutputStream. Currently listPath is a very memory expensive operation for a
large directory. It might be a good idea avoiding add a field to FileStatus.
> FileStatus should have a field "isUnderConstruction"
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> Key: HDFS-878
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-878
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Zheng Shao
> Assignee: Zheng Shao
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> Currently DFSClient has no way to know whether a file is under construction
> or not, unless we open the file and get locatedBlocks (which is much more
> costly).
> However, the namenode knows whether each INode is under construction or not.
> We should expose that information from NameNode.getListing(), to
> DFSClient.listPaths(), to DistributedFileSystem.listStatus().
> We should also expose that information through DFSInputStream and
> DFSDataInputStream if not there yet.
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