Not sure if this feature is available. A workaround would be to update replication factor and block size at the HDFS level and reverting the changes after the distcp is complete. This is good for a one time copy. :-)
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > I looked at > hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/DistCpOptionSwitch.java > but didn't find such switch. > > FYI > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Varun Sharma <varun13...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am running a Distcp programmatically from Hadoop cluster to another - >> using Hadoop 2.7 and distcp v2. I would like to set a custom block size and >> replication factor for my files. How can I achieve that ? >> >> Thanks ! >> Varun >> > >