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Daniel Templeton commented on HDFS-14381:
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That's a really good point.  I'll update the description accordingly.

> Add option to hdfs dfs -cat to ignore corrupt blocks
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>                 Key: HDFS-14381
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-14381
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: tools
>    Affects Versions: 3.2.0
>            Reporter: Daniel Templeton
>            Priority: Minor
>
> If I have a file in HDFS that contains 100 blocks, and I happen to lose the 
> first block (for whatever obscure/unlikely/dumb reason), I can no longer 
> access the 99% of the file that's still there and accessible.  In the case of 
> some data formats (e.g. text), the remaining data may still be useful.  It 
> would be nice to have a way to extract the remaining data without having to 
> manually reassemble the file contents from the block files.  Something like 
> {{hdfs dfs -cat -ignoreCorrupt <file>}}.  It could insert some marker to show 
> where the missing blocks are.



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