--- - name: Create the 'supergroup' user group group: name={{ hdfs_users_supergroup }} state=present tags: - hadoop - hdfs - name: Create the /data/dfs directory on the NN filesystem file: path={{ hdfs_data_dir }} owner=root group=root state=directory tags: - hadoop - hdfs - name: Create the /data/dfs/nn directory on the NN filesystem file: path={{ hdfs_data_dir }}/{{ hdfs_nn_data_dir }} owner=hdfs group=hdfs state=directory tags: - hadoop - hdfs