Thanks Todd. I will try it out.
_____ From: Todd Lipcon [mailto:t...@cloudera.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:00 PM To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org; gok...@huawei.com Subject: Re: HDFS concurrent access Hi Gokul, That function doesn't exist as of yet. Your best bet is to poll for the file's existence or use an external mechanism like ZooKeeper to communicate and coordinate between clients. Thanks -Todd On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Gokulakannan M <gok...@huawei.com> wrote: I want to know whether an API exists for the following functionality.? One user(user1) is writing to a large file(size 100MB) and another user(user2) wants to read that file once user1 completes the writing. So is there an API exists for this functionality of waiting? Thanks, Gokul
