No, permissions are not preserved. FsShell copy commands match *nix's cp behavior by using the current umask (the conf setting you cited) for the permissions of new file. Perhaps we could add a -p option, like the *nix cp, to preserve permissions. In the meantime you can set the umask if most of your files have the same permissions.
Daryn On Jun 10, 2013, at 6:07 AM, Abhishek Gayakwad wrote: Hi, While copying file from hdfs file permissions are getting changed, my assumption was that while copying permissions should be retained. Is this behavior correct ? [abhishek@int019 ~]$ hdfs dfs -ls drwxr-xr-x - abhishek abhishek 0 2013-06-06 10:14 in-dir1 [abhishek@int019 ~]$ hdfs dfs -ls in-dir1 Found 2 items -rw-r--r-- 3 abhishek abhishek 0 2013-06-06 10:10 in-dir1/_SUCCESS -rw-r--r-- 3 abhishek abhishek 5000000000 2013-06-06 10:10 in-dir1/part-00001 [abhishek@int019 ~]$ hdfs dfs -copyToLocal in-dir1/part-00001 [abhishek@int019 ~]$ ll total 4887604 -rwxr-xr-x 1 abhishek abhishek 5000000000 Jun 10 06:08 part-00001 [abhishek@int019 ~]$ umask 0002 fs.permissions.umask-mode is not set so I think it defaults to 0022 Thanks, Abhishek
