No reason why not. And a permission explains why there is an error : missing access rights....
Bertrand Dechoux On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Shahab Yunus <shahab.yu...@gmail.com> wrote: > In MRv2 or Yarn is it possible to provide a complete path to a file > instead of a directory to a mapreduce job? > > Usually we provide a list of directory paths by using > FileInputFormat.addInputPath. Can we provide a path which is a full path to > an actually file? I have tried it but getting unexpected permission errors. > > Thanks. >