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Mayank Bansal reassigned MAPREDUCE-6713:
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Assignee: Mayank Bansal
> Distcp doesn't provide any option to override the default staging directory
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> Key: MAPREDUCE-6713
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-6713
> Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: distcp
> Affects Versions: 2.5.1
> Reporter: Mohammad Kamrul Islam
> Assignee: Mayank Bansal
>
> *Current state and shortcoming*
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> By default, distcp writes temporary files into
> $TARGET_PATH/.distcp.tmp/$taskatttempttid. (See
> RetriableFileCopyCommand#getTmpFile). There is no way a user can override
> this staging/tmp directory. The problem is obvious in S3 with versioning. For
> example, user wants to turn on S3 versioning only for his target directory
> but not the staging/tmp directory. Current distcp also creates versioning for
> staging directory which can contain a lot of temporary files. If user can
> override this path by a non-versioned S3 path for staging, it will make
> things cleaner.
>
> *Proposed solution*
> ==============
> Provide a new option(-stage) where user can optionally provide a path from
> target FS. Distcp mapper tasks will write distcp temporary files into that
> directory.
> *Possible Confusions*
> =================
> There is another distcp option (-tmp) which can be assumed to serve the same
> purpose. But this option works only with "-atomic" option which has a
> different meaning of temporary files.
> Another confusion could be the staging directory used by mapreduce framework.
> The proposed temp directory is for distcp specific.
> Working on a patch to upload.
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