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distcp error: Mismatch in length of source

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Distcp is failing to copy csv files with the error "Mismatch in length of source" or "Cannot obtain block length". I find that some of the files it's complaining about are zero-sized files. I am copying from HDP2.4.3 to HDP2.6. See the command i'm running below and find attached the logs. Anyone encountered this same problem?

hadoop distcp -bandwidth 1 -m 24 -i hdfs://nn1:8020/dir/year=2017/month=05/day=14 hdfs://nn2:8020/dir/day=20170514
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@Joshua Adeleke

run this command 'hdfs fsck /path/to/file' and check that all the file blocks of this file is not corrupted