Rakesh R created HDFS-8959: ------------------------------ Summary: Provide an iterator-based API for listing all the snapshottable directories Key: HDFS-8959 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8959 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Rakesh R Assignee: Rakesh R
Presently {{DistributedFileSystem#getSnapshottableDirListing()}} is sending all the {{SnapshottableDirectoryStatus[]}} array to the clients. Now the client should have enough space to hold it in memory. There could be chance that the client JVMs running out of memory because of this. Also, some time back there was a [comment|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8643?focusedCommentId=14658800&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14658800] about RPC packet limitation and a large number of snapshot list can again cause issues. I believe iterator based {{DistributedFileSystem#listSnapshottableDirs()}} API would be a good addition! -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)