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Sanjay Radia commented on HADOOP-6903: -------------------------------------- The methods are visible to subclasses but one cannot call another instance of the AbstractFileSystem. One often needs to do that in a when using a filter file system like approach. > Make AbstractFileSystem's methods public to allow filter-Fs like > implementions in a differnt package than fs > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-6903 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6903 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Sanjay Radia > > Make AbstractFileSystem's methods public to allow filter-Fs like > implementions in a differnt package than fs -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.