What do you mean immutable? Do u mean non modifiable maybe .?  Immutable 
implies that they can't be deleted .

Jay Vyas 
MMSB
UCHC

On Nov 8, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Mohammad Tariq <[email protected]> wrote:

> Files are immutable, once written into the Hdfs. And touchz creates a file of 
> 0 length.
> 
> Regards,
>     Mohammad Tariq
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Kartashov, Andy <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Guys,
>> 
>> When running examples, you bring them into HDFS. Say, you need to make some 
>> correction to a file, you need to make them on local FS and run $hadoop fs 
>> -put ... again. You cannot just make changes to files inside HDFS except for 
>> "touchz" a file, correct?
>> 
>> Just making sure.
>> 
>> Thnx,
>> AK
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