Jan, extended attributes were added in Hadoop 2.6+. We just bumped Hadoop 2.6 to Oozie master. Consider filing a jira to add this functionality to distcp action.
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Jan Hentschel < jan.hentsc...@ultratendency.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I have a workflow which contains a DistCp action (Oozie 4.2.0 with > distcp-action-0.2.xsd). The action is used to back up a file to another > location. The file has extended attributes attached to it and I would like > to also have them in the backup location. Using the DistCp command I can > pass in the flag –px to preserve the extended attributes. I haven’t seen a > way yet to preserve the attributes in the DistCp action in Oozie. Is there > a way in the DistCp action to do this? So far, I haven’t seen a JIRA ticket > covering this. > > > > Best, Jan > > > >
