{quote}
> Currently, our suggested workaround is that the user who generates the HFiles
> should chmod the output directory to be world writable, thus allowing the
> hbase user to move the files from the output directory into the hbase
> directories. This seems sufficient as a stop-gap until we can add an
> "ownership transfer" functionality in HDFS, no?
{quote}+1 That stop-gap is what we do in production.
