Not exactly what you want, but here are the docs from the user perspective.
http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.8.0/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/filesystem/introduction.html#Path_Names --Anu On 3/5/18, 5:08 PM, "Zsolt Venczel" <zvenc...@cloudera.com> wrote: Hi Hdfs Devs, While focusing on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-13176 I was assembling a set of characters to test webhdfs file path with and was unable to find such an "official" list. Would it make sens to come up with a definition for supported path patterns for Hdfs? If there is such a definition can you please guide me to it? Thanks and best regards, Zsolt