Hi Mohammad, Sentry translates the permissions of hive tables/databases to underlying file system directories in form of file system ACLS. So, even without using HCat, you can still rely on file system permissions. Please see here for detailed explanation on how it works: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENTRY/Sentry+Tutorial#SentryTutorial-Sentry-HDFSSynchronization
Regards, On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Mohammad Islam <misla...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > Hi,What are the constraints of HDFS-sync feature?Can any MR/pig job's HDFS > access be controlled by Sentry? or they MUST use HCatalog IOFormat/Loader? > Regards,Mohammad > -- Sravya Tirukkovalur
