Ah, that is a javadoc typo. Has been fixed in HADOOP-6114.

On 04-Nov-2011, at 2:22 AM, Steve Lewis wrote:

> 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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