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Ashutosh Chauhan updated HDFS-9763:
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Description:
It will be good to add merge(Path dir1, Path dir2, ... ) api to HDFS. Semantics
will be to move all files under dir1 to dir2 and doing a rename of files in
case of collisions.
In absence of this api, Hive[1] has to check for collision for each file and
then come up unique name and try again and so on. This is inefficient in
multiple ways:
1) It generates huge number of calls on NN (atleast 2*number of source files in
dir1)
2) It suffers from TOCTOU[2] bug for client picked up name in case of collision.
3) Whole operation is not atomic.
A merge api outlined as above will be immensely useful for Hive and potentially
to other HDFS users.
[1]
https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/release-2.0.0-rc1/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/metadata/Hive.java#L2576
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_check_to_time_of_use
was:
It will be good to add merge(Path dir1, Path dir2, ... ) api to HDFS. Semantics
will be to move all files under dir1 to dir2 and doing a rename of files in
case of collisions.
In absence of this api, Hive[1] has to check for collision for each file and
then come up unique name and try again and so on. This is inefficient in
multiple ways:
1) It generates huge number of calls on NN (atleast 2*number of source files in
dir1)
2) It suffers from TOCTOU[2] bug for client picked up name in case of collision.
3) Whole operation is not atomic.
A merge api outlined as above will be immensely useful for Hive and potentially
to other HDFS users.
[1]
https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/release-2.0.0-rc1/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/metadata/Hive.java#L2576
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_check_to_time_of_use
> Add merge api
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>
> Key: HDFS-9763
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9763
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: fs
> Reporter: Ashutosh Chauhan
>
> It will be good to add merge(Path dir1, Path dir2, ... ) api to HDFS.
> Semantics will be to move all files under dir1 to dir2 and doing a rename of
> files in case of collisions.
> In absence of this api, Hive[1] has to check for collision for each file and
> then come up unique name and try again and so on. This is inefficient in
> multiple ways:
> 1) It generates huge number of calls on NN (atleast 2*number of source files
> in dir1)
> 2) It suffers from TOCTOU[2] bug for client picked up name in case of
> collision.
> 3) Whole operation is not atomic.
> A merge api outlined as above will be immensely useful for Hive and
> potentially to other HDFS users.
> [1]
> https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/release-2.0.0-rc1/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/metadata/Hive.java#L2576
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_check_to_time_of_use
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