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Subject: Re: Is there a way to get an absolute HDFS path?
From: Keith Wiley <kwiley@keithwiley.com>
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Hmmm, that's interesting.  Unless I'm misunderstanding you, the =
associated operation in conventional file systems (such as the pwd) =
command only work because "something" already knows the absolute path =
and can produce it on demand.  If all you have is a relative path (such =
as "top/sub" in your original example) then it's fundamentally too late =
to turn it into an absolute path; it's inherently ambiguous.

Perhaps someone else can help.  I'm sure I haven't.  I just found your =
initial question interesting so I wanted to ask about it a bit.

Sorry.

On Mar 12, 2012, at 14:51 , W.P. McNeill wrote:

> I want to normalize the paths. I don't actually care about the =
specific
> string representations, just that two paths that point to the same =
location
> in HDFS could be recognized as equivalent. Usually the way you do this =
in
> file systems is get an absolute path, so that's why I'm looking for =
one
> here.


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