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Ravi Gummadi commented on HADOOP-6051: -------------------------------------- With -update, the path to which it copies a single file is correct. The issue is just that it copies again and again even with -update, which it should not be doing. Will upload a patch soon. Also will try to update the doc to reflect the correct behaviour. > distcp does not skip copying file if we are updating single file > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-6051 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6051 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Bug > Components: tools/distcp > Affects Versions: 0.21.0 > Reporter: Ravi Gummadi > Fix For: 0.21.0 > > > distcp doesn't skip copying file when we do -update on single file if the > destfile already exists. > When we do > hadoop distcp -update srcfilename destfilename > it seems to be comparing checksums of srcfilename and > destfilename/srcfilename and so skip is not done. It should compare checksums > of srcfilename and destfilename. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.