Interesting thread on common and HDFS lists. Seems it won't likely make it into webhdfs but it is an interesting usecase for Knox...
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Nikita Makeev" <whale2....@gmail.com> Date: Apr 24, 2014 1:09 PM Subject: Text cmd in webhdfs To: <common-...@hadoop.apache.org> Cc: > In my company we're using webhdfs a lot. One of usage pattern is exporting > files from hdfs to external systems which was done before webhdfs by > calling 'hadoop fs -text' to local filesystem and then transferring to > final destination. We're using 'text' because of storing data on hdfs in > sequence files and our external systems can't read them. We find webhdfs > very handy, particularly because of very little overhead for starting up > compared to 'hadoop fs', so we made a patch to make datanode capable of > doing 'text' via webhdfs. Though I think our usage pattern is hardly > common, I still asking the community, is there any interest in such > functionality. > > SY, > > Nikita Makeev
