Sergey Shelukhin created HDFS-7878: -------------------------------------- Summary: API - expose an unique file identifier Key: HDFS-7878 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7878 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
See HDFS-487. Even though that is resolved as duplicate, the ID is actually not exposed by the JIRA it supposedly duplicates. INode ID for the file should be easy to expose; alternatively ID could be derived from block IDs, to account for appends... This is useful e.g. for cache key by file, to make sure cache stays correct when file is overwritten. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)