Yes, it will return in bytes.
NN side code where it is summing the bytes
for(Block blk : blocks) {
bytes += blk.getNumBytes();
}
Thanks
Uma
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Lewis <lordjoe2...@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, November 4, 2011 2:24 am
Subject: Re: What is the approved way in 0.20 to get a file size
To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org
> I read that getLen returns the length in Blocks - and I wrong and
> does it
> return the length in bytes
> the code I see in org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileStatus says
>
> /*
> * @return the length of this file, in blocks
> */
> public long getLen() {
> return length;
> }
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>
> > You need to use:
> >
> >
> >
> http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileStatus.html#getLen()>
> > via
> >
> http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.html#getFileStatus(org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path)>
> > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Steve Lewis <lordjoe2...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > FileSystem.getLength(Path path) is deprecated
> > > getFileStatus(Path path) .getLen(String path) seems to return
> the path
> > in
> > > Blocks whereas I want it in bytes
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> >
> >
> >
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> > Harsh J
> >
>
>
>
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