Hello @NumeroUnoNU ,   I've run the "alternatives --list" command on a cluster node and noticed that there is a "hadoop-conf" item, which points to a directory that has the hdfs-site.xml location.   You can also discover it by: "/usr/sbin/alternatives --display hadoop-conf".   This lead to me to google for "/var/lib/alternatives/hadoop-conf" and found this Community Article reply, which I believe answers your question.   In short if you have e.g. gateway roles deployed for HDFS on a node, you will find the up-to-date hdfs-site.xml in /etc/hadoop/conf folder...   We have a little bit diverged from the original topic in this thread. To make the conversation easier to read for future visitors, would you mind open a new thread for each major topics, please?   Please let us know if the above information helped you by pressing the "Accept as Solution" button.   Best regards: Ferenc ... View more