On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Steve Loughran ste...@hortonworks.com wrote:
On 15 Jun 2015, at 21:22, Colin P. McCabe cmcc...@apache.org wrote:
One possibility is that we could randomize the order of returned
results in HDFS (at least within a given batch of results returned
from the NN).
On 15 Jun 2015, at 21:22, Colin P. McCabe cmcc...@apache.org wrote:
One possibility is that we could randomize the order of returned
results in HDFS (at least within a given batch of results returned
from the NN). This is similar to how the Go programming language
randomizes the order of
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 3:21 AM, Steve Loughran ste...@hortonworks.com wrote:
HADOOP-12009 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12009) patches the
FS javadoc and contract tests to say the order you get things back from a
listStatus() isn't guaranteed to be alphanumerically sorted
I think the patch just updates the doc as of now, not changing any code to
affect the existing usage.
Sorting depends on the underlying implementations.
Linux *ls *implementation returns alphanumerically sorted array by default
( Current implementation might have assumed from here to sort by
HADOOP-12009 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12009) patches the
FS javadoc and contract tests to say the order you get things back from a
listStatus() isn't guaranteed to be alphanumerically sorted
That's one of those assumptions which we all have, but which, when you think
The POSIX spec for readdir
(http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/readdir.html) doesn’t
spell out a sort order, so it should be assumed that the ordering isn’t
guaranteed.
Chris Siebenmann has written a few relative blog posts on the topic
that might be of
