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Andrew Wang commented on HDFS-7878:
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We still have an outstanding question for Sergey that affects the PathHandle
vs. FileStatus choice: whether these IDs need to be passed cross-process. A
FileStatus will be significantly bigger in this case.
DirectFS sounds like overkill, I'd hope we can address this with an incremental
improvement.
> API - expose an unique file identifier
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>
> 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
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> 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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