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Andrew Wang updated HDFS-6984: ------------------------------ Attachment: HDFS-6984.nowritable.patch Here's the sample patch I used to remove Writable. > In Hadoop 3, make FileStatus serialize itself via protobuf > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-6984 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6984 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 3.0.0-alpha1 > Reporter: Colin P. McCabe > Assignee: Colin P. McCabe > Labels: BB2015-05-TBR > Attachments: HDFS-6984.001.patch, HDFS-6984.002.patch, > HDFS-6984.003.patch, HDFS-6984.nowritable.patch > > > FileStatus was a Writable in Hadoop 2 and earlier. Originally, we used this > to serialize it and send it over the wire. But in Hadoop 2 and later, we > have the protobuf {{HdfsFileStatusProto}} which serves to serialize this > information. The protobuf form is preferable, since it allows us to add new > fields in a backwards-compatible way. Another issue is that already a lot of > subclasses of FileStatus don't override the Writable methods of the > superclass, breaking the interface contract that read(status.write) should be > equal to the original status. > In Hadoop 3, we should just make FileStatus serialize itself via protobuf so > that we don't have to deal with these issues. It's probably too late to do > this in Hadoop 2, since user code may be relying on the existing FileStatus > serialization there. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: hdfs-issues-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: hdfs-issues-h...@hadoop.apache.org