Handling s3n:// and s3a:// protocols

[tylerjharden]

I have perused the open/closed issues as well as the source code and notice the only S3 prefix coded into the handlers is s3://

From my experience these 2 additional protocols are utilized by some people explicitly and this potentially affects those users.

[aemruli]

Hello @tylerjharden can you be more specific whtat s3n and s3a should do in particular ?

[tylerjharden]

This StackOverflow Question and the top Answer gives a solid technical explanation of the differences:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33356041/technically-what-is-the-difference-between-s3n-s3a-and-s3

For posterity, there is a native file system (s3n) accessor, an alternative without a 5GB limit (s3a) and the standard S3 block storage accessor (s3).

Each of the 3 have some pretty significant differences.

[tylerjharden]

I should also note this applies specifically to Hadoop on S3, sorry that I didn't mention that earlier and was unclear.