Sounds like we can share ideas over this. I have a JIRA filed for an FTP server over HDFS https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3199. This will provide FTP access over HDFS. May be you would like to take a look at it.
What I also need is an FTP client that stores content directly into HDFS. I have already started work on this as it is of a greater priority for me. I am would be developing it as a command line FTP shell that understands the underlying HDFS and also connects to a remote FTP server. I haven't opened a JIRA issue for it as yet, but may be you can go ahead and open it :-) -Ankur -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Fiedler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 10:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: An FTP client for HDFS If you don't write it, I just might. It would eventually be of use to me, and it would be a fun way to get involved in Hadoop. How I see using this is to set up a small cluster to use as a reliable file store, and use ftp to programmatically access those files. Could be useful for deployment, such as via cfengine for Bcfg2 (that is, store the packages and other binaries in HDFS, let the client retrieve them via ftp). n
