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Zheng Shao commented on HDFS-878: --------------------------------- Hairong, I guess you mean DFSInputStream provides the visible length and "under construction" information? I will open a JIRA for the "under construction" information for HDFS and HFTP. > FileStatus should have a field "isUnderConstruction" > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-878 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-878 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Zheng Shao > Assignee: Zheng Shao > > Currently DFSClient has no way to know whether a file is under construction > or not, unless we open the file and get locatedBlocks (which is much more > costly). > However, the namenode knows whether each INode is under construction or not. > We should expose that information from NameNode.getListing(), to > DFSClient.listPaths(), to DistributedFileSystem.listStatus(). > We should also expose that information through DFSInputStream and > DFSDataInputStream if not there yet. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.