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  1. Hadoop Common
  2. HADOOP-4952

Improved files system interface for the application writer.

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    • New Feature
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 0.21.0
    • 0.21.0
    • fs
    • None
    • Reviewed
    • New FileContext API introduced to replace FileSystem API. FileContext will be the version-compatible API for future releases. FileSystem API will be deprecated in the next release.

    Description

      Currently the FIleSystem interface serves two purposes:

      • an application writer's interface for using the Hadoop file system
      • a file system implementer's interface (e.g. hdfs, local file system, kfs, etc)

      This Jira proposes that we provide a simpler interfaces for the application writer and leave the FilsSystem interface for the implementer of a filesystem.

      • Filesystem interface has a confusing set of methods for the application writer
      • We could make it easier to take advantage of the URI file naming
        • Current approach is to get FileSystem instance by supplying the URI and then access that name space. It is consistent for the FileSystem instance to not accept URIs for other schemes, but we can do better.
        • The special copyFromLocalFIle can be generalized as a copyFile where the src or target can be generalized to any URI, including the local one.
        • The proposed scheme (below) simplifies this.
      • The client side config can be simplified.
        • New config() by default uses the default config. Since this is the common usage pattern, one should not need to always pass the config as a parameter when accessing the file system.
        • It does not handle multiple file systems too well. Today a site.xml is derived from a single Hadoop cluster. This does not make sense for multiple Hadoop clusters which may have different defaults.
        • Further one should need very little to configure the client side:
          • Default files system.
          • Block size
          • Replication factor
          • Scheme to class mapping
        • It should be possible to take Blocksize and replication factors defaults from the target file system, rather then the client size config. I am not suggesting we don't allow setting client side defaults, but most clients do not care and would find it simpler to take the defaults for their systems from the target file system.

      Attachments

        1. FileContext3.patch
          65 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        2. FileContext5.patch
          68 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        3. FileContext6.patch
          70 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        4. FileContext7.patch
          73 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        5. FileContext9.patch
          79 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        6. FileContext-common10.patch
          81 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        7. FileContext-common11.patch
          83 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        8. FileContext-common12.patch
          88 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        9. FileContext-common13.patch
          88 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        10. FileContext-common14.patch
          88 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        11. FileContext-common16.patch
          88 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        12. FileContext-common18.patch
          88 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        13. FileContext-common19.patch
          90 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        14. FileContext-common21.patch
          92 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        15. FileContext-common22.patch
          91 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        16. FileContext-common24.patch
          92 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        17. FileContext-common25.patch
          92 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        18. FileContext-hdfs10.patch
          5 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        19. FileContext-hdfs11.patch
          8 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        20. Files.java
          15 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        21. Files.java
          11 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        22. FilesContext1.patch
          53 kB
          Sanjay Radia
        23. FilesContext2.patch
          66 kB
          Sanjay Radia

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