Author: Andrew Olson (cherry picked from commit faba3591d32f2e4808c2faeb9472348d52619c8a)
DistCp (distributed copy) is a tool used for large inter/intra-cluster copying. It uses Map/Reduce to effect its distribution, error handling and recovery, and reporting. It expands a list of files and directories into input to map tasks, each of which will copy a partition of the files specified in the source list.