Yes. Just give the complete path of your file on the local FS. Don't forget to add "file://". To be on the safer side, don't add reference to the config file in your code, if you have done so.
Accesing local filesystem without uploading to hdfs
Question
Is there anyway to specify the inputpath in Hadoop outside the HDFS, I am running a single node cluster and want to access files outside the HDFS, so is there any way to do this???
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