[HADOOP-3011] Distcp deleting target directory

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.16.2
• Component/s: util
• Assignee: Christopher Douglas
• Reporter: Koji Noguchi
• Created: 13/Mar/08 19:33
• Updated: 03/Apr/08 15:42
• Resolved: 17/Mar/08 22:08

Description

I believe this happens when

1) src is a file and dst is a directory.

2) -update is set

% hadoop distcp -p -update hdfs://srcnn:9999/user/knoguchi/fileA hdfs://dstnn:9999/user/knoguchi/dir

This will delete the hdfs://dstnn:9999/user/knoguchi/dir .