diff --git a/utils/src/main/scala/com/ibm/sparktc/sparkbench/utils/SparkFuncs.scala b/utils/src/main/scala/com/ibm/sparktc/sparkbench/utils/SparkFuncs.scala
index 43d224cf..932216b5 100644
--- a/utils/src/main/scala/com/ibm/sparktc/sparkbench/utils/SparkFuncs.scala
+++ b/utils/src/main/scala/com/ibm/sparktc/sparkbench/utils/SparkFuncs.scala
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package com.ibm.sparktc.sparkbench.utils
 import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.lit
 import org.apache.spark.sql.{DataFrame, SparkSession}
 import com.databricks.spark.avro._
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem
 
 object SparkFuncs {
 
@@ -62,9 +63,27 @@ object SparkFuncs {
     }
   }
 
+  private def extractHDFSuri(str: String): Option[String] = {
+    val regx = """hdfs://(hdfs:\d+)""".r.unanchored
+    str match {
+      case regx(uri) => Some(uri)
+      case _ => None
+    }
+  }
+
+  private def getHadoopFS(path: String, spark: SparkSession): FileSystem = {
+    val uriOpt = extractHDFSuri(path)
+    if(uriOpt.nonEmpty){
+      org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(new java.net.URI(s"hdfs://${uriOpt.get}"), new org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration())
+    }
+    else {
+      val conf = spark.sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration
+      org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(conf)
+    }
+  }
+
   def pathExists(path: String, spark: SparkSession): Boolean = {
-    val conf = spark.sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration
-    val fs = org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(conf)
+    val fs: FileSystem = getHadoopFS(path, spark)
     fs.exists(new org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path(path))
   }