Thanks for your reply!! This is the only think i found related on the web.. but i don't see much "support" let's say for it.. so i am not sure if it's the best choice..
What kind of issues you get in your company? (What company? if i may ask.. I mean I deal with scientific documents mostly.. the files most of the time will be "static" we just have to read them several times to apply algorithms"). 2012/6/15 Ruslan Al-Fakikh <metarus...@gmail.com> > Hi Pierre, > > According to my knowledge HDFS is not compliant as a normal > filesystem. But you can use Fuse as a workaround to mount it. This is > what we do in our company, but we were experiencing some stability > issues. > > Ruslan > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Pierre Antoine DuBoDeNa > <pad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have installed hdfs to use it with hadoop and hbase. I am wondering if > i > > can use it as a normal file system too that just connects several HDDs ? > > > > For example i can see the files i have stored through the webinterface > > (browse filesystem) or with the dfs commands. However if I go to the > exact > > location in the hdfs directory there is nothing. Everything is stored in > an > > "hdfs format". > > > > Is it possible to go to /app/hadoop/tmp/data/text.txt for example in some > > way? Can i use it in such way? > > > > I just want to avoid to install NFS servers as i already have in place > > hdfs. > > > > Best, > > PA >
