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AI-generatedHDFS snapshot diffing and NameNode RPC pressure during small file migration
Migrating data between Hadoop clusters without downtime often relies on HDFS snapshots and incremental copies via distcopy. While this approach aims to maintain point-in-time consistency without locking source directories, the performance of the metadata comparison remains a concern for specific workloads. When the source directory contains millions of small