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Andy Isaacson commented on HADOOP-8761: --------------------------------------- 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) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 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 > > > Trivial patch attached corrects the usage information. Stat.java calls > FileStatus.getLen(), which is most definitely the file size in bytes. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira