[HDFS-691] Limitation on java.io.InputStream.available()

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.21.0
• Component/s: hdfs-client
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Tsz-wo Sze
• Reporter: Tsz-wo Sze
• Created: 09/Oct/09 23:05
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 28/Oct/09 23:35

Description

java.io.InputStream.available() returns an int which has the max value 2^31-1 = 2GB - 1B. It won't work if the number of available bytes is >= 2GB.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: HADOOP-6307 Support reading on un-closed SequenceFile
• is related to: HDFS-246 Add a method to get file length for Seekable, FSDataInputStream and libhdfs
• relates to: HDFS-814 Add an api to get the visible length of a DFSDataInputStream.