What is the full URL you used? With hdfs://, you need to supply a name node address.
With file://, you don't. Contrarily, with maprfs:// you don't need an address since it is implied in the client connection. On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 6:29 PM, David Kincaid <kincaid.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an Amazon EMR cluster launched with Drill loaded. I'm trying to > configure the dfs storage plugin to use HDFS. The docs say that I should > simply need to change the "connection" setting from "file:///" to "hdfs://" > in order to use HDFS on the cluster that Drill is running on. However, when > I do this and try to run a query I get an error that says > "org.apache.drill.common.exceptions.UserRemoteException: > SYSTEM ERROR: URISyntaxException: Expected authority at index 7: hdfs:// > [Error Id: f9e6c674-4dd7-4c5d-b9a8-95b64b9dbaa3" > > Am I doing something wrong or is there an issue here? > > Thanks, > > Dave >