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  1. Hadoop Common
  2. HADOOP-1539

distcp overwrites destination files by default

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • None
    • 0.15.0
    • util
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    Description

      This is risky. distcp should instead accept a flag that indicates if destination files can be overwritten (overwrite all files, overwrite only if dest timestamp is older than source etc). The default behavior should be to not overwrite any files.

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              cdouglas Christopher Douglas
              senthil Senthil Subramanian
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