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Jing Zhao commented on HDFS-10313: ---------------------------------- bq. the old behavior is that we fallback to regular distcp if sync failed, my suggested change would change the old behavior so no fallback would happen, I believe it's safer, do you agree? Yes, agree. Let's return some error msg here. > Distcp does not check the order of snapshot names passed to -diff > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-10313 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-10313 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Components: distcp > Reporter: Yongjun Zhang > Assignee: Lin Yiqun > Attachments: HDFS-10313.001.patch > > > This jira is to propose adding a check to distcp, when {{-diff s1 s2}} is > passed, we need to ensure that s2 is newer than s1, otherwise, abort with a > informative error message. > This is the result of my offline discussion with [~jingzhao] on HDFS-9820. > Thanks Jing. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)