Hi All, I have run the hadoop 0.20 append branch . Can someone please clarify the following behavior?
A writer writing a file but he has not flushed the data and not closed the file. Could a parallel reader read this partial file? For example, 1. a writer is writing a 10MB file(block size 2 MB) 2. wrote the file upto 5MB (2 finalized blocks + 1 blockBeingWritten) . note that writer is not calling FsDataOutputStream sync( ) at all 3. now a reader tries to read the above partially written file I can be able to see that the reader can be able to see the partially written 5MB data but I feel the reader should be able to see the data only after the writer calls sync() api. Is this the correct behavior or my understanding is wrong? Thanks, Gokul
