[jira] [Updated] (HADOOP-18117) Add an option to preserve root directory permissions

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ASF GitHub Bot updated HADOOP-18117:
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> Add an option to preserve root directory permissions
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>                 Key: HADOOP-18117
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-18117
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Mohanad Elsafty
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: pull-request-available
>          Time Spent: 10m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> As mentioned in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-15211
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> If *-update* or *-overwrite* is being passed when *distcp* used, the root directory will be skipped in two occasions (CopyListing#doBuildListing & CopyCommitter#preserveFileAttributesForDirectories), which will ignore root directory's attributes.
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> We face the same issue when distcp huge data between clusters and it takes too much effort to update root directories attributes manually.
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> From the earlier ticket it's obvious why this behaviour is there, but sometime we need to enforce root directory update hence I will add a new option for distcp to enable someone (who understands the need of this and know what they are doing) to enforce the update of root directory's attributes (permissions, ownership, ...)
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> It should be simple one, something like this
> {code:java}
> $ hadoop distcp -p -update -updateRootDirectoryAttributes /a/b/c /a/b/d {code}
> This behaviour is optional and will be *false* by default. (it should not affect existing *distcp* users).



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