Good point Harsh. As a Linux Admin, I prefer the behavior of 2.x. It allows me to see if I've made a mistake in my planned placement of files instead of blindly writing.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1.x, -put does mkdir the parent directories if they are non existent > (akin to mkdir -p). > > On 2.x, -put does not do this - we need the dir to pre-exist or mkdir'd > before -put. > > ➜ ~ hadoop fs -put foo a/bc/dfe/fsdf.t > put: `a/bc/dfe/fsdf.t': No such file or directory > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes it does, you can just try ;) >> >> hadoop@node3:~/hadoop-1.0.3$ bin/hadoop fs -ls /user/ >> Found 1 items >> drwxr-xr-x - hbase supergroup 0 2013-01-03 09:54 /user/hbase >> >> hadoop@node3:~/hadoop-1.0.3$ bin/hadoop fs -put CHANGES.txt >> /user/test/CHANGES.txt >> >> hadoop@node3:~/hadoop-1.0.3$ bin/hadoop fs -ls /user/ >> Found 2 items >> drwxr-xr-x - hbase supergroup 0 2013-01-03 09:54 /user/hbase >> drwxr-xr-x - hadoop supergroup 0 2013-01-16 11:56 /user/test >> >> hadoop@node3:~/hadoop-1.0.3$ bin/hadoop fs -ls /user/test/ >> Found 1 items >> -rw-r--r-- 3 hadoop supergroup 446615 2013-01-16 11:56 >> /user/test/CHANGES.txt >> >> hadoop@node3:~/hadoop-1.0.3$ bin/hadoop fs -put CHANGES.txt >> /user/test2/subdir/anotherone/CHANGES.txt >> >> hadoop@node3:~/hadoop-1.0.3$ bin/hadoop fs -ls >> /user/test2/subdir/anotherone/ >> Found 1 items >> -rw-r--r-- 3 hadoop supergroup 446615 2013-01-16 11:58 >> /user/test2/subdir/anotherone/CHANGES.txt >> >> >> 2013/1/16, John Meza <[email protected]>: >> > Does "hadoop fs -put mmddyyyy.tsv t1/2012/01/01/mmddyyyy.tsv" create the >> > necassary subdirectories in hdfs?thanksJohn >> > > > > -- > Harsh J >
