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Konstantin Shvachko commented on HADOOP-4044:
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sanjay> merely the NN throws that exception.
May be a symlink exception from the NN is not bad, but wrapping the SymLink
data inside the exception seems to be a bad way of returning data back to the
client. I mean this part of the code proposed above does not look right
{code}
catch (SymLinkNotFollowedException e) {
f = e.getSymLink();
}
{code}
I would definitely prefer to have a common base class returned as Doug proposes.
> 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
>
>
> 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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