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Rodrigo Schmidt commented on HDFS-1111:
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I talked to Dhruba about this. Since we might want to extend this API in the 
future, it sounds better to create a new return class.

@André: I thing using the class Boolean would work in centralized Java (no need 
to create the array). Anyway, the RPC mechanism passes parameters by value as 
far as I remember, which means we have to change the return class.

> getCorruptFiles() should give some hint that the list is not complete
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>
>                 Key: HDFS-1111
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1111
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Rodrigo Schmidt
>            Assignee: Rodrigo Schmidt
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> If the list of corruptfiles returned by the namenode doesn't say anything if 
> the number of corrupted files is larger than the call output limit (which 
> means the list is not complete). There should be a way to hint incompleteness 
> to clients.
> A simple hack would be to add an extra entry to the array returned with the 
> value null. Clients could interpret this as a sign that there are other 
> corrupt files in the system.
> We should also do some rephrasing of the fsck output to make it more 
> confident when the list is not complete and less confident when the list is 
> known to be incomplete.

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