Hi Vity! Please let me reiterate that I think its great work and I'm glad you thought of sharing it with the community. Thanks a lot.
I can think of a few reasons for using WebHDFS, although, if these are not important to you, it may not be worth the effort: 1. You can point to an HttpFS gateway in case you do not have network access to the datanodes. 2. WebHDFS is a lot more likely to be compatible with different versions of Hadoop (https://github.com/avast/hdfs-shell/blob/master/build.gradle#L80) Although, the community is trying really hard to maintain compatibility going forward for FileSystem too. 3. You may be able to eliminate linking a lot of jars that hadoop-client would pull in. Having said that there may well be reasons why you don't want to use WebHDFS. Thanks again! Ravi On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:38 AM, Vitásek, Ladislav <vita...@avast.com> wrote: > Hello Ravi, > I am glad you like it. > Why should I use WebHDFS? Our cluster sysops, include me, prefer command > line. :-) > > -Vity > > 2017-02-09 22:21 GMT+01:00 Ravi Prakash <ravihad...@gmail.com>: > >> Great job Vity! >> >> Thanks a lot for sharing. Have you thought about using WebHDFS? >> >> Thanks >> Ravi >> >> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Vitásek, Ladislav <vita...@avast.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello Hadoop fans, >>> I would like to inform you about our tool we want to share. >>> >>> We created a new utility - HDFS Shell to work with HDFS more faster. >>> >>> https://github.com/avast/hdfs-shell >>> >>> *Feature highlights* >>> - HDFS DFS command initiates JVM for each command call, HDFS Shell does >>> it only once - which means great speed enhancement when you need to work >>> with HDFS more often >>> - Commands can be used in a short way - eg. *hdfs dfs -ls /*, *ls /* - >>> both will work >>> - *HDFS path completion using TAB key* >>> - you can easily add any other HDFS manipulation function >>> - there is a command history persisting in history log >>> (~/.hdfs-shell/hdfs-shell.log) >>> - support for relative directory + commands *cd* and *pwd* >>> - it can be also launched as a daemon (using UNIX domain sockets) >>> - 100% Java, it's open source >>> >>> You suggestions are welcome. >>> >>> -L. Vitasek aka Vity >>> >>> >> >
