Viewing Basic File Information

To view basic file information, select a file in the HDFS content explorer. The following display shows an example:
Basic File Information
Sample HDFS content explorer display
The following information about a file is provided:
Basic File Information
Field
Description
Name
Specifies the name of the file.
Size
Specifies the file size. This value includes the disk space required to store the data in blocks and metadata about the file.
Date Modified
Specifies the date that the file was created or replaced.
Path
Specifies the HDFS directory.
Description
Specifies the description that is stored with the data. The description is displayed beside the table name in the explorer interface.
Number of copies
Specifies the number of redundant copies of the data.
Block size
Specifies the number of bytes that are used to store each block of data.
Owner
Specifies the user account that added the data to HDFS.
Group
Specifies the primary UNIX group for the user account.
Permissions
Specifies the Read, Write, and Execute access permissions for owner, group, and other.
SASHDAT file?
Specifies that the file is in the special format that is created by the data preparation interface.
Note: The HDFS content explorer can show many files for a table as it is added to HDFS. These entries disappear once the action completes.