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Ravi Gummadi commented on MAPREDUCE-2015: ----------------------------------------- Are you sure the input path is not already existing when you start running your command ? Anyway, please send mail with the problem description to user mailing list. Others may have more insights. > GridMix always throws an FileAlreadyExistsException even ouput directory is > not available in HDFS. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-2015 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2015 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Bug > Components: contrib/gridmix > Affects Versions: 0.20.1 > Reporter: Vinay Kumar Thota > Assignee: Ranjit Mathew > > Gridmix always throws an FileAlreadyExistsException even ouput directory is > not available in HDFS. Actually I was launching the Gridmix in a command line > for generating the data, before launching I just make sure the output > directory is not available in the HDFS by deleting the folder if already > exists.However, I could see output directory already exists exception every > time. Please see the attached logs for more information. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira