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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HDFS-5228:
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Okay, let's commit the patch for the moment.  We could revert the recent 
Symlink work later if we found more problems.  For the record, I did hear some 
performance issues but not yet sure about the cause of them.
                
> The RemoteIterator returned by DistributedFileSystem.listFiles(..) may throw 
> NPE
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>
>                 Key: HDFS-5228
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5228
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: hdfs-client
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.0-beta
>            Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
>            Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
>            Priority: Blocker
>         Attachments: h5228_20130919.patch, h5228_20130919_test.patch, 
> HDFS-5228.2.patch
>
>
> Get a RemoteIterator from DistributedFileSystem.listFiles(..) with a relative 
> path.  Then, it will result a NullPointerException when calling hasNext() 
> from the RemoteIterator.
> This bug was discovered by Arnaud:
> http://hortonworks.com/community/forums/topic/new-bug-in-hdfs-listfiles-method/

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