question Re: How data or file is written into HDFS? in Support Questions https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-data-or-file-is-written-into-HDFS/m-p/212810#M174746 <P>its same as how we keep/save data on Linux file system.</P><P>However HDFS is distributed file system. Data will be shared across cluster .</P><P>Copying data from Your Local System :-</P><OL><LI> hdfs dfs -copyFromLocal data.txt /hddspath</LI></OL> Wed, 30 May 2018 16:56:00 GMT shivkumar82015 2018-05-30T16:56:00Z