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Yongjun Zhang commented on HADOOP-11281:
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HI [~corby10],
Thanks for reporting the issue. HDFS-7312 is intended to resolve this issue
with distcp.
> Add flag to fs.shell to skip _COPYING_ file
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> Key: HADOOP-11281
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11281
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: fs, fs/s3
> Environment: Hadoop 2.2 but is in all of them.
> AWS EMR 3.0.4
> Reporter: Corby Wilson
> Priority: Critical
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> Amazon S3 does not have a rename feature.
> When you use the hadoop shell or distcp feature, hadoop first uploads the
> file using the ._COPYING_ extension, then renames the file to the final
> output.
> Code:
> org/apache/hadoop/fs/shell/CommandWithDestination.java
> PathData tempTarget = target.suffix("._COPYING_");
> targetFs.setWriteChecksum(writeChecksum);
> targetFs.writeStreamToFile(in, tempTarget, lazyPersist);
> targetFs.rename(tempTarget, target);
> The problem is that on rename, we actually have to download the file again
> (through an InputStream), then upload it again.
> For very large files (>= 5GB) we have to use multipart upload.
> So if we are processing several TB of multi GB files, we are actually writing
> the file to S3 twice and reading it once from S3.
> It would be nice to have a flag or core-site.xml setting that allowed us to
> tell hadoop to skip the copy and just write the file once.
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