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Eli Collins updated HADOOP-8040:
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Assignee: (was: Eli Collins)
> 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
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> 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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