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Chris Douglas commented on HDFS-7878:
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[~jingzhao] Good idea on {{FileHandle}}; I prefer that to {{InodeId}}, though 
it's potentially confusing if we want to allow handles to directories, too 
(e.g., if a process wanted to walk a subtree, ignoring parent renames).

bq. one question is how HdfsInodeId#nnId handles HA setup and different 
FileSystem schemes

Good point. For HDFS, I don't think we care which protocol they use or which NN 
the client contacts. Is {{clusterID}} the right identifier?

> API - expose an unique file identifier
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-7878
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7878
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
>            Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin
>              Labels: BB2015-05-TBR
>         Attachments: HDFS-7878.01.patch, HDFS-7878.02.patch, 
> HDFS-7878.03.patch, HDFS-7878.04.patch, HDFS-7878.05.patch, 
> HDFS-7878.06.patch, HDFS-7878.patch
>
>
> See HDFS-487.
> Even though that is resolved as duplicate, the ID is actually not exposed by 
> the JIRA it supposedly duplicates.
> INode ID for the file should be easy to expose; alternatively ID could be 
> derived from block IDs, to account for appends...
> This is useful e.g. for cache key by file, to make sure cache stays correct 
> when file is overwritten.



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