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Steve Loughran commented on HDFS-7878:
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hmmm.
* S3a adds an {{S3AFileStatus}} with a new field "isEmptyDir". I've
contemplated making it a subclass of {{LocatedFileStatus}}. so lists operations
returning those wouldn't need any new objects.
* grepping the Hadoop production code, FileStatus.getPath is often used as the
input to FS operations (open, delete, rename). But not so often for create(),
and rename destinations.
* Any changes to FileStatus has to be done so that external filesystems (e.g.
google cloud storage) which subclass FileStatus don't break. I know, given the
pain Guice causes us it'd be retaliation, but the GCS team aren't the guice
team, and would upset users.
Now, the bad news. FileStatus is part of the public FS API, documented in
{{FileSystem.md}}. You're proposing changing it, aren't you?
Which means you get to update the doc and the tests in
{{AbstractContractGetFileStatusTest}}. And now that I know that JIRA is
planning to change the file, I'm going to be expecting to see that handles.
> API - expose an unique file identifier
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> Key: HDFS-7878
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7878
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
> Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin
> Labels: BB2015-05-TBR
> Attachments: HDFS-7878.01.patch, HDFS-7878.02.patch,
> HDFS-7878.03.patch, HDFS-7878.04.patch, HDFS-7878.05.patch,
> HDFS-7878.06.patch, HDFS-7878.patch
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> See HDFS-487.
> Even though that is resolved as duplicate, the ID is actually not exposed by
> the JIRA it supposedly duplicates.
> INode ID for the file should be easy to expose; alternatively ID could be
> derived from block IDs, to account for appends...
> This is useful e.g. for cache key by file, to make sure cache stays correct
> when file is overwritten.
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