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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE updated HADOOP-3939: ------------------------------------------- Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE Release Note: Added a new optopm -delete to DistCp so that if the files/directories exist in dst but not in src will be deleted. It uses FsShell to do delete, so that it will use trash if the trash is enable. Status: Patch Available (was: Open) Passed test-patch and all tests locally. Submitting ... > DistCp should support an option for deleting non-existing files. > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-3939 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3939 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: tools/distcp > Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > Attachments: 3939_20080825.patch, 3939_20080825b.patch, > 3939_20080826.patch > > > One use case of DistCp is to sync two directories. Currently, DistCp has an > -update option for overwriting dst files if src is different from dst. > However, it is not enough for sync. If there are some files in dst but not > exist in src, there is no easy way to delete them. We should add a new > option, say -delete, so that DistCp will delete the non-existing in dst. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.