Details
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New Feature
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Status: Patch Available
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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2.6.5
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None
Description
DistCp is very slow to start when the src directory has a huge number of subdirectories. In our case, we already have the directory listing (via "hdfs oiv -i fsimage" or via nightly "hdfs dfs -lr -r /" dumps), and we would like to use that instead of doing realtime listing on the NameNode.
The "-f" option doesn't help in this case because it would try to put everything into a single flat target directory.
We'd like to introduce a new option "-listing <file>" for distcp. The <file> contains the result of listing the src directory.
In order to achieve this, we plan to:
1. Add a new CopyListing class PregeneratedCopyListing similar to SimpleCopyListing which doesn't "-ls -r" into the directory, but takes the listing via "-list"
2. Add an option "-list <file>" which will automatically make distcp use the new PregeneratedCopyListing class.