question Re: Difference between spaceConsumed vs length parameters in getContentSummary using webHDFS REST API in Archives of Support Questions (Read Only) https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Difference-between-spaceConsumed-vs-length-parameters-in/m-p/112557#M38401 <P>spaceConsumed = length * replicationFactor</P> Sat, 20 Aug 2016 03:14:15 GMT xyao 2016-08-20T03:14:15Z Difference between spaceConsumed vs length parameters in getContentSummary using webHDFS REST API https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Difference-between-spaceConsumed-vs-length-parameters-in/m-p/112556#M38400 <P>According to the following doc, spaceConsumed refers to the "The disk space consumed by the content." and length refers to "The number of bytes used by the content."</P><P><A href="https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.0.4/webhdfs.html#ContentSummary" target="_blank">https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.0.4/webhdfs.html#ContentSummary</A></P><P>What would be the real difference here in terms of space taken from HDFS?</P><P>Consider that most of time, if not always, spaceConsumed has a lot larger value then length. What does spaceConsumed consider that length does not?</P> Sat, 20 Aug 2016 02:06:35 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Difference-between-spaceConsumed-vs-length-parameters-in/m-p/112556#M38400 icocio 2016-08-20T02:06:35Z Re: Difference between spaceConsumed vs length parameters in getContentSummary using webHDFS REST API https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Difference-between-spaceConsumed-vs-length-parameters-in/m-p/112557#M38401 <P>spaceConsumed = length * replicationFactor</P> Sat, 20 Aug 2016 03:14:15 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Difference-between-spaceConsumed-vs-length-parameters-in/m-p/112557#M38401 xyao 2016-08-20T03:14:15Z