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Steve Loughran commented on HADOOP-13208:
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One little detail, nothing has been written down about how listFiles() really
works, there are no FS contract tests. HADOOP-13207 covers this.
> listFiles(recursive=true) to do a bulk listObjects instead of walking the
> pseudo-tree of directories
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> Key: HADOOP-13208
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13208
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: fs/s3
> Affects Versions: 2.8.0
> Reporter: Steve Loughran
> Assignee: Steve Loughran
> Priority: Minor
> Original Estimate: 24h
> Remaining Estimate: 24h
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> A major cost in split calculation against object stores turns out be listing
> the directory tree itself. That's because against S3, it takes S3A two HEADs
> and two lists to list the content of any directory path (2 HEADs + 1 list for
> getFileStatus(); the next list to query the contents).
> Listing a directory could be improved slightly by combining the final two
> listings. However, a listing of a directory tree will still be
> O(directories). In contrast, a recursive {{listFiles()}} operation should be
> implementable by a bulk listing of all descendant paths; one List operation
> per thousand descendants.
> As the result of this call is an iterator, the ongoing listing can be
> implemented within the iterator itself
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