distcp should place the file distcp_src_files in distributed cache ------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-6072 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6072 Project: Hadoop Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: tools/distcp Affects Versions: 0.21.0 Reporter: Ravi Gummadi Fix For: 0.21.0 When large number of files are being copied by distcp, accessing distcp_src_files seems to be an issue, as all map tasks would be accessing this file. The error message seen is: 09/06/16 10:13:16 INFO mapred.JobClient: Task Id : attempt_200906040559_0110_m_003348_0, Status : FAILED java.io.IOException: Could not obtain block: blk_-4229860619941366534_1500174 file=/mapredsystem/hadoop/mapredsystem/distcp_7fiyvq/_distcp_src_files at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient$DFSInputStream.chooseDataNode(DFSClient.java:1757) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient$DFSInputStream.blockSeekTo(DFSClient.java:1585) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient$DFSInputStream.read(DFSClient.java:1712) at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(DataInputStream.java:178) at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(DataInputStream.java:152) at org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Reader.init(SequenceFile.java:1450) at org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Reader.<init>(SequenceFile.java:1428) at org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Reader.<init>(SequenceFile.java:1417) at org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Reader.<init>(SequenceFile.java:1412) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileRecordReader.<init>(SequenceFileRecordReader.java:43) at org.apache.hadoop.tools.DistCp$CopyInputFormat.getRecordReader(DistCp.java:299) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:336) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:305) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:170) This could be because of HADOOP-6038 and/or HADOOP-4681. If distcp places this special file distcp_src_files in distributed cache, that could solve the problem. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.