[MAPREDUCE-1285] DistCp cannot handle -delete if destination is local filesystem

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.21.0
• Component/s: distcp
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Peter Romianowski
• Reporter: Peter Romianowski
• Created: 09/Dec/09 18:50
• Updated: 24/Aug/10 21:19
• Resolved: 11/Dec/09 01:31

Description

The following exception is thrown:

Copy failed: java.io.IOException: wrong value class: org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem$RawLocalFileStatus is not class org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileStatus
	at org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Writer.append(SequenceFile.java:988)
	at org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Writer.append(SequenceFile.java:977)
	at org.apache.hadoop.tools.DistCp.deleteNonexisting(DistCp.java:1226)
	at org.apache.hadoop.tools.DistCp.setup(DistCp.java:1134)
	at org.apache.hadoop.tools.DistCp.copy(DistCp.java:650)
	at org.apache.hadoop.tools.DistCp.run(DistCp.java:857)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79)