distcp can retry copying specified number of times in case of transient failures --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-6060 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6060 Project: Hadoop Core Issue Type: New Feature Components: tools/distcp Affects Versions: 0.21.0 Reporter: Ravi Gummadi Assignee: Ravi Gummadi Fix For: 0.21.0 distcp can retry specified number of times copying if the mapreduce job fails with transient error. Providing option -retries <num_tries> to discp would be useful for users who copy large amount of data and see transient errors. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.