Is it possible to create a HDFS folder in memory? - hadoop

Hadoop now supports mount a ramdisk (tmpfs), is it possible to create a hdfs folder pure in tmpfs, like all files in "/usr/memory" locate in ramdisk

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How to copy a file from a GCS bucket in Dataproc to HDFS using google cloud?

I had uploaded the data file to the GCS bucket of my project in Dataproc. Now I want to copy that file to HDFS. How can I do that?
For a single "small" file
You can copy a single file from Google Cloud Storage (GCS) to HDFS using the hdfs copy command. Note that you need to run this from a node within the cluster:
hdfs dfs -cp gs://<bucket>/<object> <hdfs path>
This works because hdfs://<master node> is the default filesystem. You can explicitly specify the scheme and NameNode if desired:
hdfs dfs -cp gs://<bucket>/<object> hdfs://<master node>/<hdfs path>
Note that GCS objects use the gs: scheme. Paths should appear the same as they do when you use gsutil.
For a "large" file or large directory of files
When you use hdfs dfs, data is piped through your local machine. If you have a large dataset to copy, you will likely want to do this in parallel on the cluster using DistCp:
hadoop distcp gs://<bucket>/<directory> <HDFS target directory>
Consult the DistCp documentation for details.
Consider leaving data on GCS
Finally, consider leaving your data on GCS. Because the GCS connector implements Hadoop's distributed filesystem interface, it can be used as a drop-in replacement for HDFS in most cases. Notable exceptions are when you rely on (most) atomic file/directory operations or want to use a latency-sensitive application like HBase. The Dataproc HDFS migration guide gives a good overview of data migration.

how to save data in HDFS with spark?

I want to using Spark Streaming to retrieve data from Kafka. Now, I want to save my data in a remote HDFS. I know that I have to use the function saveAsText. However, I don't know precisely how to specify the path.
Is that correct if I write this:
myDStream.foreachRDD(frm->{
frm.saveAsTextFile("hdfs://ip_addr:9000//home/hadoop/datanode/myNewFolder");
});
where ip_addr is the ip address of my hdfs remote server.
/home/hadoop/datanode/ is the DataNode HDFS directory created when I installed hadoop (I don't know if I have to specify this directory). And,
myNewFolder is the folder where I want to save my data.
Thanks in advance.
Yassir
The path has to be a directory in HDFS.
For example, if you want to save the files inside a folder named myNewFolder under the root / path in HDFS.
The path to use would be hdfs://namenode_ip:port/myNewFolder/
On execution of the spark job this directory myNewFolder will be created.
The datanode data directory which is given for the dfs.datanode.data.dir in hdfs-site.xml is used to store the blocks of the files you store in HDFS, should not be referenced as HDFS directory path.

Mount HAR using HDFS-Fuse

Is it possible to mount a Hadoop Archive File when using hdfs-fuse-dfs?
I followed the notes on Cloudera for setting up hdfs-fuse-dfs and am able to mount hdfs. I can view hdfs as expected. However, on our HDFS we have .har files. Within hdfs-fuse-dfs I can see the .har files, but I am not able to access the files within (aside from viewing a part-0, _index, etc files).

Mounting a part of Hdfs using HDFS Nfs Gateway

1.I am trying to mount HDFS to a local directory using NFS Gateway,I was successful in mounting the root "/",What i want to achieve is mounting only a part of HDFS (say /user) on local file system is there any way by which this can be done
2.Also i want to know how to mount HDFS on a separate machine,not part of the cluster,what i ideally want is a machine acting as NFS drive on which i have mounted a part of HDFS and all client uploading the file to that remote directory
i am using Hortonworks vm 2.2 ,Any suggestion would be very helpul

hadoop file system change directory command

I was going through the HADOOP fs commands list. I am little perplexed not to find any "cd" command in hadoop fs.
Why is it so? It might sound silly question for the HADOOP users, but as I am beginner I can not understand why there is no list of cd command in HADOOP fs level?
Think about it like this:
Hadoop has a special file system called "hdfs" which runs on top of existing say linux file system. There is no concept of current or present working directory a.k.a. pwd
Let's say we have following structure in hdfs:
d1/
d2/
f1
d3/
f2
d4/
f3
You could do cd in your Linux file system from moving from one to the other but do you think changing directory in hadoop would makes sense? HDFS is like virtual file system and you dont directly interact with hdfs except via hadoop command or job tracker.
HDFS provides various features that enable accessing HDFS(Hadoop Filesystem) easy on local machines or edge nodes. You have an option to mount HDFS using any of the following methods. Once Hadoop file system is mounted on your machine, you may use cd command to browse through the file system (It's is like mounting remote network filesystem like NAS)
Fuse dfs (Available from Hadoop 0.20 onwards )
NFSv3 Gateway access to HDFS data (Available from Hadoop version
Hadoop 2.2.0)

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