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John Zhuge commented on HADOOP-10965:
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I am ok either way. Any user with basic HDFS knowledge would only be puzzled
for a few minutes then realize "f1" means the target and the relative path
indicates an implicit user home dir. The fix is trying to be more helpful than
the standard Linux behavior.
> 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
>
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> 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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