Jignesh You are absolutely right. In hdfs directory doesn't exist physically. It is just meta data on name node. I don't think such a dir structure would be there in name node lfs as well as it just meta data and hence no physical dir structure is created.
Regards Bejoy K S -----Original Message----- From: Jignesh Patel <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:02:53 To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: hdfs directory location Bejoy, copyToLocal makes sense, it worked. But I am still wondering if HDFS has a directory created on local box, somewhere it exist physically but couldn't able to locate it. Is HDFS directory structure is a virtual structure, doesn't exist physically? -Jignesh On Oct 10, 2011, at 3:53 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Jignesh > Sorry I didn't get your query, 'how I can link it with HDFS > directory structure? > ' > > You mean putting your unix dir contents into hdfs? If so use hadoop fs > -copyFromLocal src destn > ------Original Message------ > From: Jignesh Patel > To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: hdfs directory location > Sent: Oct 11, 2011 01:18 > > Bejoy, > > If I create a directory in unix box then how I can link it with HDFS > directory structure? > > -Jignesh > On Oct 10, 2011, at 2:59 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Jignesh >> You are creating a dir in hdfs by that command. The dir won't be in >> your local file system but it hdfs. Issue a command like >> hadoop fs -ls /user/hadoop-user/citation/ >> You can see the dir you created in hdfs >> >> If you want to create a die on local unix use a simple linux command >> mkdir /user/hadoop-user/citation/input >> >> >> ------Original Message------ >> From: Jignesh Patel >> To: [email protected] >> ReplyTo: [email protected] >> Subject: hdfs directory location >> Sent: Oct 10, 2011 23:45 >> >> I am using following command to create a file in Unix(i.e. mac) system. >> >> bin/hadoop fs -mkdir /user/hadoop-user/citation/input >> >> While it creates the directory I need, I am struggling to figure out exact >> location of the folder in my local box. >> >> >> >> >> >> Regards >> Bejoy K S > > > > Regards > Bejoy K S
