Re: adding functionality to retrieve file name from a block

2009-12-08 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
Another way is to go through the ReplicaInfo class which has package private File getBlockFile() method Cos On 12/8/09 17:12 , Suresh Srinivas wrote: There is no need to store file name in the block. Given block you can get BlockInfo, which has INodeFile. From this you can get the correspondi

Re: adding functionality to retrieve file name from a block

2009-12-08 Thread Suresh Srinivas
There is no need to store file name in the block. Given block you can get BlockInfo, which has INodeFile. From this you can get the corresponding file name. As Dhruba said, I am interested in the use-case as well. On 12/3/09 1:25 AM, "Dhruba Borthakur" wrote: I think that if we add the filena

Re: adding functionality to retrieve file name from a block

2009-12-03 Thread Dhruba Borthakur
I think that if we add the filename of a file to each block, it adds additional complexity to the implementation of the filesystem. what is the use-case that you have in mind? thanks, dhruba On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Jack Li wrote: > > I am trying to add functionality so that a block can

RE: adding functionality to retrieve file name from a block

2009-12-02 Thread Zheng Shao
What if the user renames or move the file? Zheng From: Jack Li [jack...@duke.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 11:30 PM To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: adding functionality to retrieve file name from a block Hi, I am trying to add function