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dhruba borthakur commented on HDFS-814: --------------------------------------- Can this be added to 0.21 as well? > Add an api to get the visible length of a DFSDataInputStream. > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-814 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-814 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: hdfs client > Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > Fix For: 0.21.0, 0.22.0 > > Attachments: h814_20091221.patch > > > Hflush guarantees that the bytes written before are visible to the new > readers. However, there is no way to get the length of the visible bytes. > The visible length is useful in some applications like SequenceFile. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.