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Yufei Gu commented on HDFS-8828:
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Hi Jing Zhao,
Thank you for reviewing the code. We changed the option here for the following
reason. This patch is to build the diff file list instead of complete file
list. In the other words, only files/directories changed/created will be in the
copy file list. With the "-delete" option on, the MR jobs will delete every
files/directories in the target which are not in the copy file list. So it will
delete files we intend to keep.
> Utilize Snapshot diff report to build copy list in distcp
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> Key: HDFS-8828
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8828
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: distcp, snapshots
> Reporter: Yufei Gu
> Assignee: Yufei Gu
> Attachments: HDFS-8828.001.patch, HDFS-8828.002.patch,
> HDFS-8828.003.patch
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> Some users reported huge time cost to build file copy list in distcp. (30
> hours for 1.6M files). We can leverage snapshot diff report to build file
> copy list including files/dirs which are changes only between two snapshots
> (or a snapshot and a normal dir). It speed up the process in two folds: 1.
> less copy list building time. 2. less file copy MR jobs.
> HDFS snapshot diff report provide information about file/directory creation,
> deletion, rename and modification between two snapshots or a snapshot and a
> normal directory. HDFS-7535 synchronize deletion and rename, then fallback to
> the default distcp. So it still relies on default distcp to building complete
> list of files under the source dir. This patch only puts creation and
> modification files into the copy list based on snapshot diff report. We can
> minimize the number of files to copy.
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