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John Zhuge commented on HADOOP-10965:
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For the command "fs -put f1 f1" when default is dfs, and the user home does not
exist, there are 3 ways to print error message.
1. Existing code
{noformat}
put: f1: No such file or directory
{noformat}
2. Print absolute path
{noformat}
put: hdfs://namenode:port/user/jack/f1: No such file or directory
{noformat}
3. Patch 001 - Print a different error message
{noformat}
put: f1: Parent directory not found
{noformat}
4. 2+3
{noformat}
put: hdfs://namenode:port/user/jack/f1: Parent directory not found
{noformat}
Which way to go?
> Incorrect error message by fs -copyFromLocal
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>
> Key: HADOOP-10965
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10965
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 2.4.1
> Reporter: André Kelpe
> Assignee: John Zhuge
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: supportability
> Attachments: HADOOP-10965.001.patch
>
>
> Whenever I try to copy data from local to a cluster, but forget to create the
> parent directory first, I get a very confusing error message:
> {code}
> $ whoami
> fs111
> $ hadoop fs -ls /user
> Found 2 items
> drwxr-xr-x - fs111 supergroup 0 2014-08-11 20:17 /user/hive
> drwxr-xr-x - vagrant supergroup 0 2014-08-11 19:15 /user/vagrant
> $ hadoop fs -copyFromLocal data data
> copyFromLocal: `data': No such file or directory
> {code}
> From the error message, you would say that the local "data" directory is not
> existing, but that is not the case. What is missing is the "/user/fs111"
> directory on HDFS. After I created it, the copyFromLocal command works fine.
> I believe the error message is confusing and should at least be fixed. What
> would be even better, if hadoop could restore the old behaviour in 1.x, where
> copyFromLocal would just create the directories, if they are missing.
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