[jira] [Updated] (MAPREDUCE-5065) DistCp should skip checksum comparisons if block-sizes are different on source/target.

["Mithun Radhakrishnan (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Mithun Radhakrishnan updated MAPREDUCE-5065:
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    Attachment: MAPREDUCE-5065.branch23.patch
                MAPREDUCE-5065.branch2.patch

Fixes attached for 2.0/ and 0.23/.
                
> DistCp should skip checksum comparisons if block-sizes are different on source/target.
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>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-5065
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-5065
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: distcp
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.3-alpha, 0.23.5
>            Reporter: Mithun Radhakrishnan
>            Assignee: Mithun Radhakrishnan
>         Attachments: MAPREDUCE-5065.branch23.patch, MAPREDUCE-5065.branch2.patch
>
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> When copying files between 2 clusters with different default block-sizes, one sees that the copy fails with a checksum-mismatch, even though the files have identical contents.
> The reason is that on HDFS, a file's checksum is unfortunately a function of the block-size of the file. So you could have 2 different files with identical contents (but different block-sizes) have different checksums. (Thus, it's also possible for DistCp to fail to copy files on the same file-system, if the source-file's block-size differs from HDFS default, and -pb isn't used.)
> I propose that we skip checksum comparisons under the following conditions:
> 1. -skipCrc is specified.
> 2. File-size is 0 (in which case the call to the checksum-servlet is moot).
> 3. source.getBlockSize() != target.getBlockSize(), since the checksums are guaranteed to differ in this case.
> I have a patch for #3.

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