> On 15 Jun 2015, at 21:22, Colin P. McCabe <cmcc...@apache.org> wrote: > > One possibility is that we could randomize the order of returned > results in HDFS (at least within a given batch of results returned > from the NN). This is similar to how the Go programming language > randomizes the order of iteration over hash table keys, to avoid code > being written which relies on a specific implementation-defined > ordering. > > Regardless of whether we do that, though, there is a bunch of code > even in Hadoop common that doesn't properly deal with unsorted > listStatus / globStatus... such as "hadoop fs -ls"
something we could make an option for tests...be fun to see what happens. I wouldn't inflict it on production, as people would only hate us for breaking things. Again
