Add symlink support to FileSystem
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Key: HADOOP-8040
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8040
Project: Hadoop Common
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: fs
Affects Versions: 0.23.0
Reporter: Eli Collins
Assignee: Eli Collins
HADOOP-6421 added symbolic links to FileContext. Resolving symlinks is done on
the client-side, and therefore requires client support. An HDFS symlink
(created by FileContext) when accessed by FileSystem will result in an
unhandled UnresolvedLinkException. Because not all users will migrate from
FileSystem to FileContext in lock step, and we want users of FileSystem to be
able to access all paths created by FileContext, we need to support symlink
resolution in FileSystem as well, to facilitate migration to FileContext.
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