title: Ozone File System date: 2017-09-14 weight: 2 summary: Hadoop Compatible file system allows any application that expects an HDFS like interface to work against Ozone with zero changes. Frameworks like Apache Spark, YARN and Hive work against Ozone without needing any change.

The Hadoop compatible file system interface allows storage backends like Ozone to be easily integrated into Hadoop eco-system. Ozone file system is an Hadoop compatible file system.

Setting up the Ozone file system

To create an ozone file system, we have to choose a bucket where the file system would live. This bucket will be used as the backend store for OzoneFileSystem. All the files and directories will be stored as keys in this bucket.

Please run the following commands to create a volume and bucket, if you don't have them already.

{{< highlight bash >}} ozone sh volume create /volume ozone sh bucket create /volume/bucket {{< /highlight >}}

Once this is created, please make sure that bucket exists via the list volume or list bucket commands.

Please add the following entry to the core-site.xml.

{{< highlight xml >}} fs.o3fs.impl org.apache.hadoop.fs.ozone.OzoneFileSystem fs.AbstractFileSystem.o3fs.impl org.apache.hadoop.fs.ozone.OzFs fs.defaultFS o3fs://bucket.volume {{< /highlight >}}

This will make this bucket to be the default file system for HDFS dfs commands and register the o3fs file system type.

You also need to add the ozone-filesystem.jar file to the classpath:

{{< highlight bash >}} export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=/opt/ozone/share/ozonefs/lib/hadoop-ozone-filesystem-lib-current*.jar:$HADOOP_CLASSPATH {{< /highlight >}}

Once the default Filesystem has been setup, users can run commands like ls, put, mkdir, etc. For example,

{{< highlight bash >}} hdfs dfs -ls / {{< /highlight >}}

or

{{< highlight bash >}} hdfs dfs -mkdir /users {{< /highlight >}}

Or put command etc. In other words, all programs like Hive, Spark, and Distcp will work against this file system. Please note that any keys created/deleted in the bucket using methods apart from OzoneFileSystem will show up as directories and files in the Ozone File System.

Note: Bucket and volume names are not allowed to have a period in them. Moreover, the filesystem URI can take a fully qualified form with the OM host and an optional port as a part of the path following the volume name. For example, you can specify both host and port:

{{< highlight bash>}} hdfs dfs -ls o3fs://bucket.volume.om-host.example.com:5678/key {{< /highlight >}}

When the port number is not specified, it will be retrieved from config key ozone.om.address if defined; or it will fall back to the default port 9862. For example, we have ozone.om.address configured as following in ozone-site.xml:

{{< highlight xml >}} ozone.om.address 0.0.0.0:6789 {{< /highlight >}}

When we run command:

{{< highlight bash>}} hdfs dfs -ls o3fs://bucket.volume.om-host.example.com/key {{< /highlight >}}

The above command is essentially equivalent to:

{{< highlight bash>}} hdfs dfs -ls o3fs://bucket.volume.om-host.example.com:6789/key {{< /highlight >}}

Note: Only port number from the config is used in this case, whereas the host name in the config ozone.om.address is ignored.

Supporting older Hadoop version (Legacy jar, BasicOzoneFilesystem)

There are two ozonefs files, both of them include all the dependencies:

  • share/ozone/lib/hadoop-ozone-filesystem-lib-current-VERSION.jar
  • share/ozone/lib/hadoop-ozone-filesystem-lib-legacy-VERSION.jar

The first one contains all the required dependency to use ozonefs with a compatible hadoop version (hadoop 3.2).

The second one contains all the dependency in an internal, separated directory, and a special class loader is used to load all the classes from the location.

With this method the hadoop-ozone-filesystem-lib-legacy.jar can be used from any older hadoop version (eg. hadoop 3.1, hadoop 2.7 or spark+hadoop 2.7)

Similar to the dependency jar, there are two OzoneFileSystem implementation.

For hadoop 3.0 and newer, you can use org.apache.hadoop.fs.ozone.OzoneFileSystem which is a full implementation of the Hadoop compatible File System API.

For Hadoop 2.x you should use the Basic version: org.apache.hadoop.fs.ozone.BasicOzoneFileSystem.

This is the same implementation but doesn't include the features/dependencies which are added with Hadoop 3.0. (eg. FS statistics, encryption zones).

Summary

The following table summarize which jar files and implementation should be used:

Hadoop versionRequired jarFileSystem implementationAbstractFileSystem implementation
3.2filesystem-lib-currentorg.apache.hadoop.fs.ozone.OzoneFileSystemorg.apache.hadoop.fs.ozone.OzFs
3.1filesystem-lib-legacyorg.apache.hadoop.fs.ozone.OzoneFileSystemorg.apache.hadoop.fs.ozone.OzFs
2.9filesystem-lib-legacyorg.apache.hadoop.fs.ozone.BasicOzoneFileSystemorg.apache.hadoop.fs.ozone.BasicOzFs
2.7filesystem-lib-legacyorg.apache.hadoop.fs.ozone.BasicOzoneFileSystemorg.apache.hadoop.fs.ozone.BasicOzFs

With this method the hadoop-ozone-filesystem-lib-legacy.jar can be used from any older hadoop version (eg. hadoop 2.7 or spark+hadoop 2.7)