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Andrew Wang commented on HADOOP-8040:
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[~harip] I don't think so, since 2.1 is already close to release. Maybe we can
get it in for 2.2, but there's also some more follow-on work I want to do here
(adding hadoop shell support for instance).
> 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, 3.0.0, 2.0.3-alpha
> Reporter: Eli Collins
> Assignee: Andrew Wang
> Attachments: hadoop-8040-1.patch, hadoop-8040-2.patch,
> hadoop-8040-3.patch, hadoop-8040-4.patch, hadoop-8040-5.patch,
> hadoop-8040-6.patch, hadoop-8040-7.patch
>
>
> 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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