here is a discussion with subject 'fuse-dfs', there they discuss problems with mounting hdfs, probably you can ask your question there
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Aram Mkhitaryan <aram.mkhitar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I'm not an expert here, but > I read somewhere that it's possible to install a module in linux > which will allow you to mount hdfs folder as a standard linux folder > if I'm not wrong it was in one of the claudera's distributions, > probably you can find something there > > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:42 PM, anilkr <kr_an...@rediffmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thank you Ryan, >> My C# code is also on Linux (as it uses MONO framework on Linux). >> I understand that some bridging would be required. I am thinking that since >> Hadoop exposes some C APIs to operate with the Hadoop filesystem. If i write >> a wrapper in C and make a DLL out of it. Now my C# application will call >> this DLL for file operations and this DLL will call Hadoop APIs to operate >> with the files. >> >> Do you think this would be a proper way. >> thanks again >> >> >> Ryan Rawson wrote: >>> >>> Hadoop fs is not a typical filesystem, it is rpc oriented and uses a thick >>> client in Java. To get access to it from c# would involve bridging to Java >>> somehow. The c++ client does this. >>> >>> Most of hbase devs use Mac or Linux boxes. We aren't really experts in >>> windows tech. Maybe the main hadoop list could help you? >>> >>> On Jan 9, 2010 11:50 PM, "anilkr" <kr_an...@rediffmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Currently my application uses C# with MONO on Linux to communicate to >>> local >>> file systems (e.g. ext2, ext3). The basic operations are open a file, >>> write/read from file and close/delete the file. For this currently i use >>> C# >>> native APIs to operate on the file. >>> My Question is: If i install Hadoop file system on my Linux box. Then >>> what change i need to do to my existing functions so that they communicate >>> to hadoop file system to do basic operations on the file. Since Hadoop >>> infrastructure is based on Java, How any C# (with MONO) application will >>> do >>> basic operations with Hadoop. Do the basic APIs in C# to operate on a file >>> (likr File.Open or File.Copy) work well with Hadoop filesystems too? >>> >>> Also, If i want to open a file then do i need to mount to Hadoop >>> filesystem >>> programmatically? If yes, how? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Anil >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://old.nabble.com/Basic-question-about-using-C--with-Hadoop-filesystems-tp27096203p27096203.html >>> Sent from the HBase User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://old.nabble.com/Basic-question-about-using-C--with-Hadoop-filesystems-tp27096203p27098395.html >> Sent from the HBase User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >
