Actually, they were added in Hadoop 2.5. Oozie 4.2 and 4.3 use Hadoop 2.4. On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Artem Ervits <artemerv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 >> >> >> >> >