[jira] [Updated] (HDFS-7535) Utilize Snapshot diff report for distcp

["Jing Zhao (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7535?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jing Zhao updated HDFS-7535:
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    Attachment: HDFS-7535.000.patch

Upload a very initial patch to demo the functionality. The patch adds new options in the current distcp tool to indicate the from/to snapshot names (assuming the same snapshot names are used in primary and backup cluster). And before doing the real data copy, the patch identifies the delete/rename operations based on the diff report, and calls the same ops in the backup cluster so that we can avoid unnecessary data copy caused by rename.

Still need more work to make the whole process more efficient. Also need to add tests and handle corner cases.

> Utilize Snapshot diff report for distcp
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>                 Key: HDFS-7535
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7535
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Jing Zhao
>            Assignee: Jing Zhao
>         Attachments: HDFS-7535.000.patch
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> Currently HDFS snapshot diff report can identify file/directory creation, deletion, rename and modification under a snapshottable directory. We can use the diff report for distcp between the primary cluster and a backup cluster to avoid unnecessary data copy. This is especially useful when there is a big directory rename happening in the primary cluster: the current distcp cannot detect the rename op thus this rename usually leads to large amounts of real data copy.
> More details of the approach will come in the first comment.



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