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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:34:55 -0700
From: "Lincoln Ritter" <lincoln@lincolnritter.com>
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Subject: Determining "Hidden" Files in Hadoop
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Greetings,

Over on the Nutch dev list there's been a bit of chatter about
files/folders generated by Hadoop (generally speaking 0.17) such as
'_logs'.  Digging through Hadoop a bit revealed that there is a
private hiddenFileFilter in FileInputFilter.java.  This is similar to
what I came up with here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/nutch-dev@lucene.apache.org/msg08214.html

I couldn't find any other mention of "hidden" files in the Hadoop
codebase or the wiki and little on the mailing lists.

Is there a defined standard for hidden files or a public interface for
determining file visibility?

Thanks!

-lincoln

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