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Doug Cutting commented on HDFS-946:
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This sounds reasonable. But the client would still return fully-qualified
paths, no?
> NameNode should not return full path name when lisitng a diretory or getting
> the status of a file
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>
> Key: HDFS-946
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-946
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Hairong Kuang
> Fix For: 0.22.0
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> FSDirectory#getListring(String src) has the following code:
> int i = 0;
> for (INode cur : contents) {
> listing[i] = createFileStatus(srcs+cur.getLocalName(), cur);
> i++;
> }
> So listing a directory will return an array of FileStatus. Each FileStatus
> element has the full path name. This increases the return message size and
> adds non-negligible CPU time to the operation.
> FSDirectory#getFileInfo(String) does not need to return the file name either.
> Another optimization is that in the version of FileStatus that's used in the
> wire protocol, the field path does not need to be Path; It could be a String
> or a byte array ideally. This could avoid unnecessary creation of the Path
> objects at NameNode, thus help reduce the GC problem observed when a large
> number of getFileInfo or getListing operations hit NameNode.
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