I would first check the directory permissions. If they are set to read
only thenn you cannot write to it. They must be set to read/write to
copy files.
Cheers
Vern
On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 21:46 +0100, xeonmailinglist wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to understand why I can't copy files between HDFS filesytems
> to a directory "/input1", but I can copy files to the root dir "/".
>
> Eg, I have 2 hosts (hadoop-coc-2, and hadoop-coc3), and I can't copy
> files between the dir "input1" [1], but I can copy the file to the root
> dir [2].
>
> Initially only hadoop-coc-2 (192.168.56.102) have the data. hadoop-coc-3
> is empty. After I tried to copy the file to hadoop-coc-3, only the dir
> "input1 was created in the destination.
>
> I don't understand why this is happening. Any help?
>
> [1]
> `hadoop distcp hdfs://192.168.56.102:9000/input1/a.txt
> hdfs://192.168.56.103:9000/input1/`
>
> [2]
> `hadoop distcp hdfs://192.168.56.102:9000/input1/a.txt
> hdfs://192.168.56.103:9000/`
>
> Thanks,
>
