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

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.