Hi Pierre, According to my knowledge HDFS is not compliant as a normal filesystem. But you can use Fuse as a workaround to mount it. This is what we do in our company, but we were experiencing some stability issues.
Ruslan On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Pierre Antoine DuBoDeNa <pad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed hdfs to use it with hadoop and hbase. I am wondering if i > can use it as a normal file system too that just connects several HDDs ? > > For example i can see the files i have stored through the webinterface > (browse filesystem) or with the dfs commands. However if I go to the exact > location in the hdfs directory there is nothing. Everything is stored in an > "hdfs format". > > Is it possible to go to /app/hadoop/tmp/data/text.txt for example in some > way? Can i use it in such way? > > I just want to avoid to install NFS servers as i already have in place > hdfs. > > Best, > PA
