Loading Mleap models from external file systems

Dear experts,

We noticed that MLeap-serving only support loading models, if and only if, the model is accessible in local file system to MLeap-serving server.
This strongly limits the usage of MLeap server, especially in distributed environment.
We just wonder if this is still true for the newest version of MLeap?
And if it NO, how is it possible to use standard distributed file systems to store and load MLeap models, such as HDFS?

For instance:
`'{"modelName":"mymodel1","uri":"hdfs://hdfsnamespace/models/model1.zip","config":{"memoryTimeout":900000,"diskTimeout":900000},"force":false}'`

Best
Tien Dat