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[jira] [Commented] (HADOOP-11794) distcp can copy blocks in parallel

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Yongjun Zhang commented on HADOOP-11794:
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Hi [~mithun], thanks for your earlier work here. Wonder if you will continue to work on this issue? If not, I'm interested in taking it on. Thanks.
 


> distcp can copy blocks in parallel
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-11794
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11794
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: tools/distcp
>    Affects Versions: 0.21.0
>            Reporter: dhruba borthakur
>            Assignee: Mithun Radhakrishnan
>         Attachments: MAPREDUCE-2257.patch
>
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> The minimum unit of work for a distcp task is a file. We have files that are greater than 1 TB with a block size of  1 GB. If we use distcp to copy these files, the tasks either take a long long long time or finally fails. A better way for distcp would be to copy all the source blocks in parallel, and then stich the blocks back to files at the destination via the HDFS Concat API (HDFS-222)



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