Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze created MAPREDUCE-6564: ----------------------------------------------
Summary: distcp creates missing perent directories which is inconsistent with fs -cp Key: MAPREDUCE-6564 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-6564 Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce Issue Type: Improvement Components: distcp Reporter: Tsz Wo Nicholas Sze fs -cp will fail if the destination parent directory does not exist. {code} $hadoop fs -cp /a.sh /dst/non-existing/a.sh cp: `/dst/non-existing/a.sh': No such file or directory {code} However, distcp will not fail. It creates it {code} $hadoop distcp /a.sh /dst/non-existing/a.sh ... $hadoop fs -ls /dst/non-existing Found 1 items -rw-r--r-- 3 szetszwo hdfs 531 2015-12-04 16:24 /dst/non-existing/a.sh {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)