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Hudson commented on HADOOP-6307: -------------------------------- Integrated in Hadoop-Common-trunk-Commit #95 (See [http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Hadoop-Common-trunk-Commit/95/]) . Add a new SequenceFile.Reader constructor in order to support reading on un-closed file. > Support reading on un-closed SequenceFile > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-6307 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6307 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: io > Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > Fix For: 0.21.0, 0.22.0 > > Attachments: c6307_20091124.patch, c6307_20091130.patch, > c6307_20091201.patch > > > When a SequenceFile.Reader is constructed, it calls > fs.getFileStatus(file).getLen(). However, fs.getFileStatus(file).getLen() > does not return the hflushed length for un-closed file since the Namenode > does not know the hflushed length. DFSClient have to ask a datanode for the > length last block which is being written; see also HDFS-570. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.