is it possible to set the hadoop.tmp.dir value to HDFS path instead of local directory?

[#1]

is it possible to set the hadoop.tmp.dir value to HDFS path instead of local directory? thank you.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Setting this property creates a tmp directory in BOTH local and HDFS.

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.

There is no way to have this property NOT create a path locally.

See these links for a good discussion:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2354525/what-should-be-hadoop-tmp-dir

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40169610/where-exactly-should-hadoop-tmp-dir-be-set-core-site-xm...