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Andy Isaacson commented on HADOOP-8761:
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bq. I think the correct behavior should be to match the usage. The unix stat
uses %b for blocks, and %s for size in bytes.
I agree that adding %s for size in bytes is a good idea, but changing the
semantics of %b is an incompatible change, which seems risky. OTOH, I think it
would be potentially very useful to expose "number of blocks in this file".
Tangentially, the documentation also fails to describe %F.
> Help for FsShell's Stat incorrectly mentions "file size in blocks" (should be
> bytes)
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> Key: HADOOP-8761
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8761
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: fs
> Reporter: Philip Zeyliger
> Assignee: Philip Zeyliger
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: HADOOP-8761.patch.txt
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> Trivial patch attached corrects the usage information. Stat.java calls
> FileStatus.getLen(), which is most definitely the file size in bytes.
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