https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-we-get-file-metadata-using-org-apache-hadoop-fs/m-p/100919#M13670 <P>We can use the org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileStatus class to get the file metadata like Block size, File permissions &amp; Ownership, replication factor.</P><P>Can we get the same metadata using org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem class. If yes whats the difference between FileSystem and FileSatus class?</P><P>Thanks!</P> Tue, 29 Dec 2015 04:24:05 GMT GeeKay2015 2015-12-29T04:24:05Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-we-get-file-metadata-using-org-apache-hadoop-fs/m-p/100919#M13670 <P>We can use the org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileStatus class to get the file metadata like Block size, File permissions &amp; Ownership, replication factor.</P><P>Can we get the same metadata using org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem class. If yes whats the difference between FileSystem and FileSatus class?</P><P>Thanks!</P> Tue, 29 Dec 2015 04:24:05 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-we-get-file-metadata-using-org-apache-hadoop-fs/m-p/100919#M13670 GeeKay2015 2015-12-29T04:24:05Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-we-get-file-metadata-using-org-apache-hadoop-fs/m-p/100920#M13671 <P>An instance of <A href="http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.1/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.html">FileSystem</A> represents a Hadoop-compatible file system. It provides APIs that map to operations on that underlying file system. A <A href="http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.1/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileStatus.html">FileStatus</A> represents metadata for one particular file or directory in a file system. You can call the method <A href="http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.1/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.html#getFileStatus%28org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path%29">FileSystem#getFileStatus</A> to obtain a FileStatus instance for any file or directory stored in that file system.</P> Tue, 29 Dec 2015 04:28:40 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-we-get-file-metadata-using-org-apache-hadoop-fs/m-p/100920#M13671 cnauroth 2015-12-29T04:28:40Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-we-get-file-metadata-using-org-apache-hadoop-fs/m-p/100921#M13672 <P>Thanks Chris!!</P> Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:25:25 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-we-get-file-metadata-using-org-apache-hadoop-fs/m-p/100921#M13672 GeeKay2015 2015-12-29T09:25:25Z