I had phrased my question incorrectly. I am look to get a list of all blocks (not files) on HDFS and their checksum. Is there a way? --- Gautam
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 8:18 PM, cvkkumar <cvkku...@me.com> wrote: > Hi, > > There is a method getChecksumFile(Path file) that gives this info. > You could refer the javadoc here: > http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/ChecksumFileSystem.html > > Hope this helped. > > Regards, > Krishnakumar. > On Jul 31, 2010, at 10:10 PM, Gautam Singaraju wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> From HDFS Architecture page >> (http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/hdfs_design.html): "When >> a client creates an HDFS file, it computes a checksum of each block of >> the file and stores these checksums in a separate hidden file in the >> same HDFS namespace." >> >> Is there a way to access this data? >> >> --- >> Gautam > >
