[HADOOP-9338] FsShell Copy Commands Should Optionally Preserve File Attributes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.2, 2.0.3-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0-beta
• Component/s: fs
• Target Version/s: 2.1.0-beta
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Nick White
• Reporter: Nick White
• Created: 27/Feb/13 17:08
• Updated: 10/Dec/14 02:21
• Resolved: 30/Apr/13 16:36

Description

The attached patch adds a -p flag to the copyFromLocal and copyToLocal FsShell commands that behaves (as far as possible) like the unix 'cp' command's -p flag (i.e. preserves file last access and last modification times).