https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/what-is-dbfs-what-is-the-purpose-of-it-and-what-does-it-allow-me/m-p/24613#M17134 Tue, 15 Jun 2021 02:58:36 GMT Anonymous 2021-06-15T02:58:36Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/what-is-dbfs-what-is-the-purpose-of-it-and-what-does-it-allow-me/m-p/24613#M17134 Tue, 15 Jun 2021 02:58:36 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/what-is-dbfs-what-is-the-purpose-of-it-and-what-does-it-allow-me/m-p/24613#M17134 Anonymous 2021-06-15T02:58:36Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/what-is-dbfs-what-is-the-purpose-of-it-and-what-does-it-allow-me/m-p/24614#M17135 <P>DBFS is the "Databricks File System", but really it's just a shim / wrapper on top of distributed storage, that makes files in S3 or ADLS look like local files under the path /dbfs/... This can be really useful when working with libraries that do not understand distributed storage. They can read/write distributed storage as if it's a local file. DBFS also lets you mount other buckets under different paths under /dbfs. That's about all it is though, just a translation layer that exposes distributed storage under /dbfs (or under dbfs:/ URIs)</P> Thu, 17 Jun 2021 23:14:36 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/what-is-dbfs-what-is-the-purpose-of-it-and-what-does-it-allow-me/m-p/24614#M17135 sean_owen 2021-06-17T23:14:36Z