https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/HDFS-create-simbolic-link-between-HDFS-folder-to-local/m-p/235052#M196872 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/26229/uribarih.html" nodeid="26229">@Michael Bronson</A></P><P>I do not think it is possible.</P><P>This is because you are talking about two different File Systems (HDFS and Local FileSystem). </P><P>If you want to keep syncing your Local Data Directory to HDFS directory then you can make use of some tools like Apache Flume. </P> Wed, 27 Feb 2019 10:13:45 GMT jsensharma 2019-02-27T10:13:45Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/HDFS-create-simbolic-link-between-HDFS-folder-to-local/m-p/235051#M196871 <DIV><DIV><P>I searched in google but not find it,</P><P>is it possible to create link between HDFS folder to local folder?</P><P>example</P><P>we want to create link between <STRONG>folder_1</STRONG> in HDFS to <STRONG>/home/hdfs_mirror</STRONG> local folder</P><P>HDFS folder:</P><PRE><CODE>su hdfs $ hdfs dfs -ls /hdfs_home/folder_1 </CODE></PRE><P>Linux local folder:</P><PRE><CODE>ls /home/hdfs_mirror </CODE></PRE></DIV></DIV> Wed, 27 Feb 2019 05:10:56 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/HDFS-create-simbolic-link-between-HDFS-folder-to-local/m-p/235051#M196871 mike_bronson7 2019-02-27T05:10:56Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/HDFS-create-simbolic-link-between-HDFS-folder-to-local/m-p/235052#M196872 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/26229/uribarih.html" nodeid="26229">@Michael Bronson</A></P><P>I do not think it is possible.</P><P>This is because you are talking about two different File Systems (HDFS and Local FileSystem). </P><P>If you want to keep syncing your Local Data Directory to HDFS directory then you can make use of some tools like Apache Flume. </P> Wed, 27 Feb 2019 10:13:45 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/HDFS-create-simbolic-link-between-HDFS-folder-to-local/m-p/235052#M196872 jsensharma 2019-02-27T10:13:45Z