Hello!
Thank you for your answers. I'm using 0.20 API.
My request are per file, and I would like to have the same results that are
displayed in the when you are using the web interface for browsing the file
system (brosweBlock.jsp page).
Regards,
Florin
P.S. My results should look like this
filename filesize blocks machine_block_replication
--- On Thu, 7/28/11, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> From: Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com>
> Subject: Re: How to obtain block information of a HDFS file?
> To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org
> Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 10:10 AM
> Hello,
>
> What version of Hadoop are you using?
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Florin P <florinp...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello!
> > I would like to know how to obtain for a file (via
> Java API) the following information
> > - how many blocks occupies in the HDFS
>
> Is this request per file? or overall? [If overall, I think
> metrics are
> your best bet]
>
> > -which are the machines where the blocks were
> replicated
>
> If this request is per-file, then
> FileSystem#getBlockLocations(…) API
> can help you. Just request it over the entire size of the
> file
> (FileStatus information can be got via
> FileSystem#getFileStatus(…))
>
> --
> Harsh J
>
