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Yongjun Zhang commented on HDFS-9123:
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Hello [~liuml07],
Thanks for the comments.
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This is a good point. I supposed this is the case for distcp instead of cp?
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it's for "fs-cp", not distcp here. It also supports copying to different file
systems.
Hi [~jojochuang],
Thanks for the new rev.
Would you please address comment # 1 at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9123?focusedCommentId=14904029&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14904029
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About my comment #2, I studied the code a bit, and found that FsShell simply
absort all exceptions, and return status code, the client code has no way to
tell what's the exact failure reason if a command failed. So I'm ok that
comment #2 is not addressed. At least, the new test can show that copying from
root to child fail the same way as copying from any parent to child.
Thanks.
> Copying from the root to a subdirectory should be forbidden
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>
> Key: HDFS-9123
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9123
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: fs
> Reporter: Wei-Chiu Chuang
> Assignee: Wei-Chiu Chuang
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: HDFS-9123.001.patch, HDFS-9123.002.patch,
> HDFS-9123.003.patch
>
>
> HDFS forbids copying from a directory to its subdirectory (e.g. hdfs dfs -cp
> /abc /abc/xyz) as otherwise it could cause infinite copying (/abc/xyz/xyz,
> /abc/xyz/xyz, /abc/xyz/xyz/xyz,... etc)
> However, the existing path validation fails if the source path is the root,
> causing infinite copying, until the disk space is filled up.
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