title: Hadoop HDFS - Cannot give +x permission to files
body: <p>So, I used Cloudera's installation and management tool to get a 3 node cluster of servers up and running. </p>
  
  <p>I have HDFS running and can see / create directories etc. </p>
  
  <p>I went ahead and installed the Fuse plugin which allows me to mount the HDFS as a file system. Everything works fine. I can write files to the folders etc.</p>
  
  <p>Problem:</p>
  
  <p>when I run <code>'chmod 777 ./file.sh'</code> in the mounted drive, it doesnt give any errors but when i do a <code>'ls -l'</code> it only has: </p>
  
  <pre><code>'-rw-rw-rw- 1 root nobody 26 Oct  5 08:57 run.sh'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I run <code>'sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -chmod 777 /run.sh'</code> it still has the same permissions. No matter what I do in any way I cannot get execute permission on any files. </p>
  
  <p>I have disabled permissions in Cloudera manager, and also chown'd the folder (chmod -R 777 the folder also). But nothing seems to be working.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>