Thanks Gopal for providing detail explanation.
On 1/3/2017 5:59 PM, Gopal Vijayaraghavan wrote:
>> Thanks Gopal. Yeah I'm using CloudBerry. Storage is Azure.
> Makes sense, only an object store would have this.
>
>> Are you saying this 0000_0,1,2,3 are directories ?.
> No, only the zero size "files".
>
> This is really for compat with regular filesystems.
>
> If you have /tmp/1/foo in an object store that's a single key. That does not
> imply you'll find "/tmp" or "/tmp/1" in the object store keys.
>
> A FileSystem however assumes parent directories are "real things", so any
> FileSystem abstraction has to maintain "/tmp", "/tmp/1/" and "/tmp/1/foo" to
> keep up the basic compatibility requirements of fs.exists("/tmp").
>
> Cheers,
> Gopal
>
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