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Ravi Gummadi commented on HADOOP-6060: -------------------------------------- Uploaded combined patch of HADOOP-5444(atomic copy support) and this issue to JIRA-5444, as there are some dependant code changes. > 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.