In the HDFS Guide, you will find information on how to work with files in HDFS:
The HDFS Layout will give you an overview of the three most important folders:
If you want to access the kerberos-protected services from your local machine follow this guide:
On this page you can find scripts for easier handling of multiple kerberos sessions:
This page gives a description on what we define as the ‘Project Machine’, how it works, how to operate in it and how to access:
Finally, an overview of your two user-home folders – the normal POSIX user-home and on the distributed HDFS storage: