1. Below command works, i tried it. It also creates folders 2016 and 2017 hadoop distcp hdfs://nn1:port/foo/bar/2016 hdfs://nn1:port/foo/bar/2017 hdfs://nn2:port/foo/bar 2. If not working can you try this (Actually both are same) hadoop distcp -f hdfs://nn1:port/srclist hdfs://nn2:port/foo/bar Where srclist has hdfs://nn1:port/foo/bar/2016 hdfs://nn1:port/foo/bar/2017 ... View more

@prashanth ramesh You can specify the cache file while doing kinit itself as below [root@storm-h2 ~]# kinit -c /tmp/kafka.ticket -kt /etc/security/keytabs/kafka.service.keytab kafka/storm-h1@HDF.COM [root@storm-h2 ~]# kinit -c /tmp/zk.ticket -kt /etc/security/keytabs/zk.service.keytab zookeeper/storm-h2@HDF.COM [root@storm-h2 ~]# [root@storm-h2 ~]# klist -c /tmp/kafka.ticket Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/kafka.ticket Default principal: kafka/storm-h1@HDF.COM Valid starting Expires Service principal 10/17/2017 17:03:00 10/18/2017 17:03:00 krbtgt/HDF.COM@HDF.COM [root@storm-h2 ~]# klist -c /tmp/zk.ticket Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/zk.ticket Default principal: zookeeper/storm-h2@HDF.COM Valid starting Expires Service principal 10/17/2017 17:03:39 10/18/2017 17:03:39 krbtgt/HDF.COM@HDF.COM ... View more

@Maxence BUNEL Custom core-site can be used if you want to add any new property which is not present in Advanced core-site ... View more