Had probably re-invented the way of copying gzipped files via SSH to Hadoop's HDFS:
gzip -c file.txt | ssh hadoop.gateway.host 'gunzip -cf - | hdfs -put - input/file.txt'
And all the way back:
ssh hadoop.gateway.host 'hdfs -cat output/result.txt/* | gzip -c' | gunzip -c - > resulttxt
