Configuring pentaho's hdfs-vfs to pick up hdfs-site.xml
Will it be possible for you to provide more info? Are you talking about the VFS api distributed by pentaho ?
So I figure out a way to make pentaho hdfs works, all you need to do is adding hdfs-site.xml to your classpath. I did this when I start my jar file:
java -jar start.jar --lib=/etc/hadoop/conf.cloudera.yarn1
And /etc/hadoop/conf.cloudera.yarn1 is the directory where hdfs-site.xml reside.