Hi Ravi, I wasn't around for HADOOP-6840, but I'm guessing it's deprecated for the same reasons as primitiveCreate: FileSystem is supposed to eventually to be supplanted by FileContext.
FileContext#create also has a more manageable number of method signatures through the use of flags, and in fact defaults to not creating parent directories. I believe MR2 also uses FileContext over FileSystem, so this might be your best bet. HTH, Andrew On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Ravi Prakash <ravi...@ymail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am trying to fix MAPREDUCE-5317. I noticed that the only way through > FileSystem to NOT recursively create directories is through the deprecated > method > > @deprecated API only for 0.20-append > FileSystem.createNonRecursive. > > > This has been marked deprecated ever since it was put in by HADOOP-6840. > Do we know if we ever expect to un-deprecate this method? I am trying to > find the rationale behind checking it in as a deprecated method, but > haven't been able to find any written record. Does anyone know? > Thanks > Ravi
