https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/is-it-possible-to-set-the-hadoop-tmp-dir-value-to-HDFS-path/m-p/211476#M66034 <P>is it possible to set the hadoop.tmp.dir value to HDFS path instead of local directory? thank you. </P> Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:22:47 GMT ravirao09 2017-08-04T13:22:47Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/is-it-possible-to-set-the-hadoop-tmp-dir-value-to-HDFS-path/m-p/211476#M66034 <P>is it possible to set the hadoop.tmp.dir value to HDFS path instead of local directory? thank you. </P> Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:22:47 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/is-it-possible-to-set-the-hadoop-tmp-dir-value-to-HDFS-path/m-p/211476#M66034 ravirao09 2017-08-04T13:22:47Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/is-it-possible-to-set-the-hadoop-tmp-dir-value-to-HDFS-path/m-p/211477#M66035 <P>Setting this property creates a tmp directory in BOTH local and HDFS.</P><P>It does so in HDFS because other properties use hadoop.tmp.dir as a base path to store data in HDFS. Example: dfs.name.dir=${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/name creates this path in hdfs.</P><P>There is no way to have this property NOT create a path locally.</P><P>See these links for a good discussion: </P><P><A href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2354525/what-should-be-hadoop-tmp-dir" target="_blank">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2354525/what-should-be-hadoop-tmp-dir</A></P><P><A href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40169610/where-exactly-should-hadoop-tmp-dir-be-set-core-site-xml-or-hdfs-site-xml" target="_blank">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40169610/where-exactly-should-hadoop-tmp-dir-be-set-core-site-xml-or-hdfs-site-xml</A></P> Fri, 04 Aug 2017 21:34:07 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/is-it-possible-to-set-the-hadoop-tmp-dir-value-to-HDFS-path/m-p/211477#M66035 gkeys 2017-08-04T21:34:07Z