Oh wait a sec, you may be right. Rename may not exactly work as move, worth a shot. Excuse me.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Shrijeet Paliwal <[email protected]>wrote: > rename : > http://hadoop.apache.org/hdfs/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/protocol/ClientProtocol.html#rename(java.lang.String, > java.lang.String, > org.apache.hadoop.fs.Options.Rename...)<http://hadoop.apache.org/hdfs/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/protocol/ClientProtocol.html#rename(java.lang.String,+java.lang.String,+org.apache.hadoop.fs.Options.Rename...)> > > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:27 PM, rakesh kothari <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is "move" not supported in Hdfs ? I can't find any API for that. Looking >> at the source code for hadoop CLI it seems like it's implementing move by >> copying data from src to dest and deleting the src. This could be a time >> consuming operation. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> -Rakesh >> > >
