0down voteaccept I found the mistake. While creating a directory i was using filesystem.create() to create a directory. But actually it was creating a FSDataOutputStream at the indicated Path. So i changed it to filesystem.mkdirs(targetpath) which resolved my error. Now my code works fine. Sorry for the silly mistake and wasting you time guys. <code>if(!fs.exists(target)){ fs.mkdirs(target);//I have used this ->fs.create(target); LOGGER.info("created the path");} ... View more