Thanks, Eli. I actually just read hdfs-245 before I saw your reply. So, as I understand, symlink is available by using some relevant patches, right? From what you mentioned, it seems to me that symlink support is quite stable as of now. Just curious, why not included in a recent hadoop release yet or will it be considered in the next release?
Thanks, Michael --- On Tue, 3/9/10, Eli Collins <[email protected]> wrote: From: Eli Collins <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Symbolic link in Hadoop HDFS? To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 8:01 PM Hey Michael, Symbolic links has been implemented [1] but are not yet available in a Hadoop release. The implementation is only available to clients that use the new FileContext API so clients like Hive need to be migrated from using FileSystem to FileContext. This is currently being done in Hadoop itself [2]. Thanks, Eli [1] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-245 [2] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6446 On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:10 PM, jiang licht <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a way to create symlink in hdfs? And does LOAD function in Pig > follows such a link? Thanks! > > > Michael > > >
