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Download winutils.exe from SetUp your HADOOPHOME environment.
Hadoop requires native libraries on Windows to work properly -that includes to access the
file://
filesystem, where Hadoop uses some Windows APIs to implement posix-like file access permissions.This is implemented in
HADOOP.DLL
and WINUTILS.EXE
.In particular,
%HADOOP_HOME%BINWINUTILS.EXE
must be locatable.If it is not, Hadoop or an application built on top of Hadoop will fail.
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How to fix a missing WINUTILS.EXE
You can fix this problem in two ways
- Install a full native windows Hadoop version. The ASF does not currently (September 2015) release such a version; releases are available externally.
- Or: get the
WINUTILS.EXE
binary from a Hadoop redistribution. There is a repository of this for some Hadoop versions on github.
Then
- Set the environment variable
%HADOOP_HOME%
to point to the directory above theBIN
dir containingWINUTILS.EXE
. - Or: run the Java process with the system property
hadoop.home.dir
set to the home directory.