I don't think so, becauseI read somewhere that this is to insure the safety of the produced data. Hence Hadoop will force you to do this to know what exactly is happening.
Mark On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com>wrote: > If I have to overwrite a file I generally use > > hadoop dfs -rm <file> > hadoop dfs -copyFromLocal or -put <file> > > Is there a command to overwrite/replace the file instead of doing rm first? >
