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Raghu Angadi commented on HADOOP-4044:
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We can sort of consider FileSystem to be at similar level as a VFS in Linux. In
order to handle similar extensions in future as well, I think this might be
good time for an implementation to take a object (wrapping arguments) and
return a object that contains relevant info. Main goal is not to require actual
implementation API changes when something like this is added.
symlinks need to be handled for file system operations as well... create(),
getListing, etc.
> Create symbolic links in HDFS
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> Key: HADOOP-4044
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4044
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: dfs
> Reporter: dhruba borthakur
> Assignee: dhruba borthakur
> Attachments: symLink1.patch
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> HDFS should support symbolic links. A symbolic link is a special type of file
> that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an
> absolute or relative path and that affects pathname resolution. Programs
> which read or write to files named by a symbolic link will behave as if
> operating directly on the target file. However, archiving utilities can
> handle symbolic links specially and manipulate them directly.
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