Sahil Takiar created HIVE-15093:
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             Summary: For S3-to-S3 renames, files should be moved individually 
rather than at a directory level
                 Key: HIVE-15093
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-15093
             Project: Hive
          Issue Type: Sub-task
          Components: Hive
    Affects Versions: 2.1.0
            Reporter: Sahil Takiar
            Assignee: Sahil Takiar


Hive's MoveTask uses the Hive.moveFile method to move data within a distributed 
filesystem as well as blobstore filesystems.

If the move is done within the same filesystem:

1: If the source path is a subdirectory of the destination path, files will be 
moved one by one using a threapool of workers

2: If the source path is not a subdirectory of the destination path, a single 
rename operation is used to move the entire directory

The second option may not work well on blobstores such as S3. Renames are not 
metadata operations and require copying all the data. Client connectors to 
blobstores may not efficiently rename directories. Worst case, the connector 
will copy each file one by one, sequentially rather than using a threadpool of 
workers to copy the data (e.g. HADOOP-13600).

Hive already has code to rename files using a threadpool of workers, but this 
only occurs in case number 1.

This JIRA aims to modify the code so that case 1 is triggered when copying 
within a blobstore. The focus is on copies within a blobstore because 
needToCopy will return true if the src and target filesystems are different, in 
which case a different code path is triggered.



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