On 3/11/10 11:05 AM, "Gregory Lawrence" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way to set the output group for a mapreduce (or hdfs fs operation)
> job? For example -Ddfs.umaskmode=027 successfully sets the permissions. I
> would think the -Dgroup.name=GROUP would do a similar thing for the file's
> group. However, this does not appear to be the case. Any help would be
> appreciated.
HDFS uses sticky groups for directories. In other words, on creation, the
group of the dir is what the group of the file will be.
