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Jason Lowe commented on HADOOP-9912:
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bq. This issue is not related to .snapshot support, this issue is caused by add
symlink support to HDFS and LocalFileSystem but not handle consistency well.
If this has nothing to do with snapshot support, then why did the behavior of
globStatus and symlinks change with HADOOP-9877 which appears to be a
snapshot-related JIRA?
listStatus needs to follow symlinks, even in the HDFS case, otherwise symlinks
are not very useful. If symlinks never auto-resolve, then every client will
have to be symlink-aware and manually resolve the link for the symlink feature
to be useful in practice.
> globStatus of a symlink to a directory does not report symlink as a directory
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> Key: HADOOP-9912
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9912
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: fs
> Affects Versions: 2.3.0
> Reporter: Jason Lowe
> Priority: Blocker
> Attachments: HADOOP-9912-testcase.patch
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> globStatus for a path that is a symlink to a directory used to report the
> resulting FileStatus as a directory but recently this has changed.
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