INameServerClientProtocol Methods

The INameServerClientProtocol type exposes the following members.

Methods

	Name	Description
	AppendBlock	Appends a new block to a file.
	CloseFile	Closes a file that is open for writing.
	CreateCheckpoint	Immediately creates a checkpoint of the file system namespace.
	CreateDirectory	Creates the specified directory in the distributed file system.
	CreateFile	Creates a new file in the specified directory.
	Delete	Deletes the specified file or directory.
	GetBlocks	Gets the blocks known to the DFS.
	GetDataServerBlockCount	Gets the number of blocks from the specified block list that the data server has.
	GetDataServerBlocks	Gets the list of blocks that a particular data server has.
	GetDataServerBlocksFromList	Gets the list of blocks, out of the specified blocks, that a particular data server has.
	GetDataServersForBlock	Gets the list of data servers that have the specified block.
	GetDirectoryInfo	Gets information about a directory in the file system.
	GetFileForBlock	Gets the file that the specified block belongs to.
	GetFileInfo	Gets information about a file.
	GetFileSystemEntryInfo	Gets information about a file or directory.
	GetLogFileContents	Gets the contents of the diagnostic log file.
	GetMetrics	Gets current metrics for the distributed file system.
	Move	Moves the specified file or directory.
	RemoveDataServer	Removes the specified data server from the name server's list of known data servers.