[jira] Issue Comment Edited: (HADOOP-1759) File name should be represented by a byte array instead of a String

["Konstantin Shvachko (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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shv edited comment on HADOOP-1759 at 8/22/07 5:15 PM:
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This is about saving bytes.
Using Text as an object with a length field will add  32 bytes (28 as Sameer calculated + padding) for each name.
For regular (ascii) file names String and Text have almost the same memory overhead.


      was (Author: shv):
    This is about saving bytes.
Using Text as an object with a length field will add  24 bytes for each name.
For regular (ascii) file names String and Text have almost the same memory overhead.

  
> File name should be represented by a byte array instead of a String
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-1759
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1759
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: dfs
>    Affects Versions: 0.14.0
>            Reporter: Konstantin Shvachko
>            Assignee: Konstantin Shvachko
>             Fix For: 0.15.0
>
>         Attachments: byteName.patch
>
>
> This patch changes INode.name type to byte[], as outlined in HADOOP-1687 (4).
> I submit it as a separate patch since it does not touch a lot of code, just INode.java

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