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Mahadev konar commented on HADOOP-57:
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Here is a small patch that enables seeing the root file system. The
getDFSPath() function in DistributedFileSystem returns empty string in case of
an ls on /. The patch below modifies it to return /.
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< path.append(DFSFile.DFS_FILE_SEPARATOR);
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> path.append(DFSFile.DFS_FILE_SEPARATOR);
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< if(i!=0){
< path.append(DFSFile.DFS_FILE_SEPARATOR);
< }
> hadoop dfs -ls / does not show root of file system
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>
> Key: HADOOP-57
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-57
> Project: Hadoop
> Type: Bug
> Components: dfs
> Versions: 0.1
> Reporter: Yoram Arnon
> Priority: Minor
>
> hadoop dfs -ls / does not show root of file system - it shows the user's home
> directory.
> It's thus impossible to learn the contents of the root file system via the
> shell.
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