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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HADOOP-3873:
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> One question : extending the example in the 2nd commend above, what happens 
> if /user1/data/file1 is deleted on the source before the second day? will it 
> be deleted on the destination? If yes, may be some option like "-sync" will 
> make it more clear to the user (of course "-sizelimit" etc still apply).

+1 "-sync" is probably our next step.

> DistCp should have an option for limiting the number of files/bytes being 
> copied
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>                 Key: HADOOP-3873
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3873
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: tools/distcp
>            Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
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> A single DistCp command may potentially copies a huge number of files/bytes.  
> In such case, DistCp will run a long time and there is no way stop it nicely. 
>  It would be good if DistCp have an option to limit the number of files/bytes 
> being copied.  Once the limit is reached, DistCp will terminate and return 
> success.  All files copied are guaranteed to be good and there is no 
> partially copied file.

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