Hello,
in the hdfs-default.xml, I found the warning that the property "dfs.support.append" is false by default, because of the "append code" containing bugs. For our test case (which is not very complicated), I tried it out nevertheless (in a C program using libhdfs), and I did not encounter any problems yet. The only thing I noticed is that the modification date of the file to which I append is not changed. Could someone indicate which other bugs may occur? And in which cases? Because the append could be quite useful for me, and I would like to know the risk. Thanks in advance Jan
