[HADOOP-1593] FsShell should work with paths in non-default FileSystem

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.17.0
• Component/s: fs

Release Note

This bug allows non default path to specifeid in fsshell commands.

So, you can now specify hadoop dfs -ls hdfs://remotehost1:port/path
  and hadoop dfs -ls hdfs://remotehost2:port/path without changing the config.

• Assignee: Mahadev Konar
• Reporter: Doug Cutting
• Created: 11/Jul/07 17:58
• Updated: 21/May/08 20:05
• Resolved: 11/Feb/08 22:33

Description

If the default filesystem is, e.g., hdfs://foo:8888/, one should still be able to do 'bin/hadoop fs -ls hdfs://bar:9999/' or 'bin/hadoop fs -ls s3://cutting/foo'. Currently these generate a filesystem mismatch exception. This is because FsShell assumes that all paths are in the default FileSystem. Rather, the default filesystem should only be used for paths that do not specify a FileSystem. This would easily be accomplished by using Path#getFileSystem().