That is what I thought so too but when I give the parent directory as the input path of that same file, it works. Perhaps I am messing something up. I am suing cloudera 4.6 btw.
Meanwhile I have noticed that I can read files directly by using MultileInputs and that works fine. Regards, Shahab On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Bertrand Dechoux <[email protected]> wrote: > No reason why not. And a permission explains why there is an error : > missing access rights.... > > Bertrand Dechoux > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Shahab Yunus <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> In MRv2 or Yarn is it possible to provide a complete path to a file >> instead of a directory to a mapreduce job? >> >> Usually we provide a list of directory paths by using >> FileInputFormat.addInputPath. Can we provide a path which is a full path to >> an actually file? I have tried it but getting unexpected permission errors. >> >> Thanks. >> > >
