[HDFS-860] fuse-dfs truncate behavior causes issues with scp

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Component/s: fuse-dfs
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Tags: fuse-dfs truncate scp
• Assignee: Brian Bockelman
• Reporter: Brian Bockelman
• Created: 29/Dec/09 00:19
• Updated: 28/Sep/15 20:58
• Resolved: 16/May/12 22:58

Description

For whatever reason, scp issues a "truncate" once it's written a file to truncate the file to the # of bytes it has written (i.e., if a file is X bytes, it calls truncate(X)).

This fails on the current fuse-dfs.