Command line for HDFS transparency
You can use the HDFS shell command line with the HDFS transparency.
You can access commands from the HDFS command
shell:
$YOUR_HADOOP_PREFIX/bin/hdfs
Usage: hdfs [--config confdir] COMMAND
where COMMAND is one of:
dfs run a filesystem command on the file systems supported in Hadoop.
namenode -format format the DFS filesystem
secondarynamenode run the DFS secondary namenode
namenode run the DFS namenode
journalnode run the DFS journalnode
zkfc run the ZK Failover Controller daemon
datanode run a DFS datanode
dfsadmin run a DFS admin client
haadmin run a DFS HA admin client
fsck run a DFS filesystem checking utility
balancer run a cluster balancing utility
jmxget get JMX exported values from NameNode or DataNode.
mover run a utility to move block replicas across
storage types
oiv apply the offline fsimage viewer to an fsimage
oiv_legacy apply the offline fsimage viewer to an legacy
fsimage
oev apply the offline edits viewer to an edits file
fetchdt fetch a delegation token from the NameNode
getconf get config values from configuration
groups get the groups which users belong to
snapshotDiff diff two snapshots of a directory or diff the
current directory contents with a snapshot
lsSnapshottableDir list all snapshottable dirs owned by the current user
Use -help to see options
portmap run a portmap service
nfs3 run an NFS version 3 gateway
cacheadmin configure the HDFS cache
crypto configure HDFS encryption zones
storagepolicies list/get/set block storage policies
version print the version
Most commands print help when invoked without parameters.
Note: All commands from hdfs
dfs are supported (hdfs dfs -du and hdfs dfs -df are
not exact in the output, use du or df/mmdf for exact
output). Other commands from HDFS interface are not supported (For example, hdfs namenode
–format) because these commands are not needed for IBM Spectrum Scale™.