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Flink Jira Bot updated FLINK-11868: ----------------------------------- Labels: auto-unassigned stale-major (was: auto-unassigned) I am the [Flink Jira Bot|https://github.com/apache/flink-jira-bot/] and I help the community manage its development. I see this issues has been marked as Major but is unassigned and neither itself nor its Sub-Tasks have been updated for 30 days. I have gone ahead and added a "stale-major" to the issue". If this ticket is a Major, please either assign yourself or give an update. Afterwards, please remove the label or in 7 days the issue will be deprioritized. > [filesystems] Introduce listStatusIterator API to file system > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-11868 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11868 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: FileSystems > Reporter: Yun Tang > Priority: Major > Labels: auto-unassigned, stale-major > Fix For: 1.14.0 > > > From existed experience, we know {{listStatus}} is expensive for many > distributed file systems especially when the folder contains too many files. > This method would not only block the thread until result is return but also > could cause OOM due to the returned array of {{FileStatus}} is really large. > I think we should already learn it from FLINK-7266 and FLINK-8540. > However, list file status under a path is really helpful in many situations. > Thankfully, many distributed file system noticed that and provide API such as > {{[listStatusIterator|https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.html#listStatusIterator(org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path)]}} > to call the file system on demand. > > We should also introduce this API and replace current implementation which > used previous {{listStatus}}. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)