On Sep 30, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Bryan Duxbury wrote:
Hey all,
Why is it that FileSystem.rename returns true or false instead of
throwing an exception? It seems incredibly inconvenient to get a
false result and then have to go poring over the namenode logs
looking for the actual error message. I had this case recently where
I'd forgotten to create the parent directories, but I had no idea it
was failing since there were no exceptions.
Speculating...
To be consistent to with java.io.File.renameTo?(http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html#renameTo(java.io.File)
)
Arun
