https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Hive-export/m-p/414102#M254633 <P>I'm exporting several tables and I observe that some files are copied to the target path using DistCp (slow) while other files with some other (fast) mean</P><P>There is no evidence of the rational behind the choice but the other odd thing is that even if a table is made up of multiple files, hive starts 1 DistCp for each file instead of passing the entire directory</P><P>Is there any option to drive the behaviour?</P> Fri, 22 May 2026 10:26:27 GMT ganzuoni 2026-05-22T10:26:27Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Hive-export/m-p/414102#M254633 <P>I'm exporting several tables and I observe that some files are copied to the target path using DistCp (slow) while other files with some other (fast) mean</P><P>There is no evidence of the rational behind the choice but the other odd thing is that even if a table is made up of multiple files, hive starts 1 DistCp for each file instead of passing the entire directory</P><P>Is there any option to drive the behaviour?</P> Fri, 22 May 2026 10:26:27 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Hive-export/m-p/414102#M254633 ganzuoni 2026-05-22T10:26:27Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Hive-export/m-p/414103#M254634 <P>Self resolved</P><P>The switch between direct single threaded copy and distcp depends on file size gt&nbsp;&nbsp;hive.exec.copyfile.maxsize</P><P>The default value is 32MB</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 22 May 2026 14:38:49 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Hive-export/m-p/414103#M254634 ganzuoni 2026-05-22T14:38:49Z