I haven't tried it out yet but you theoretically can mount HDFS as a standard file system in linux using Fuse
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/MountableHDFS If you're using Cloudera's distro of Hadoop it should come with fuse prepackaged for you: https://wiki.cloudera.com/display/DOC/Mountable+HDFS ~Ed On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Adarsh Sharma <adarsh.sha...@orkash.com>wrote: > Dear all, > I have set up a Hadoop cluster of 10 nodes. > I want to know that how we can read/write file from HDFS (simple). > Yes I know there are commands, i read the whole HDFS commands. > bin/hadoop -copyFromLocal tells that the file should be in localfilesystem. > > But I want to know that how we can read these files from the cluster. > What are the different ways to read files from HDFS. > *Can a extra node ( other than the cluster nodes ) read file from the > cluster. > If yes , how? > > *Thanks in Advance* > * >
