[HADOOP-1115] copyToLocal doesn't copy directories

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.12.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nigel Daley
• Created: 13/Mar/07 17:21
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:42
• Resolved: 14/Mar/07 08:07

Description

Rohan reported this and I can also reproduce it:

> I am having problems with -copyToLocal in Hadoop [trunk]
> I have injected some data into the Distributed file system of Hadoop [trunk]
> When I try to do -copyToLocal on a file it works fine but when I try to do -copyToLocal on a directory I get the following error:
>
> *[user@bob01 nutch]$ bin/hadoop fs -copyToLocal crawldb rohan/
> copyToLocal: Target rohan/data already exists*
>
> Same thing happens when i use -get or -cp option