Azure Databricks: How to identify the ADLS storage type on a mounted path

Ganesh Chandrasekaran
2 min readMay 3, 2024

This article will help you identify the type of Azure storage protocols used as part of workspace mounts.

src: Databricks

Azure supports two types of protocols wasbs:// and abfss://.
wabs is used to read and write blob storage, whereas the newer abfss protocol is specifically for BigData and analytics.

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