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dhruba borthakur commented on HADOOP-4044:
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So folks,
Proposal1 : Do you think that it is a good idea to put in a subset of the full
symlink functionality (without support for symlinks to directories) as a first
cut? And then, if a use case arises, we can do the full symlink functionality
at a later date.
Proposal 2: Proposal 1 + if the symlink is for a pathname in the same namenode,
then the namenode will resolve the symlink transparently. This will allow
symbolic links to directories that point to paths inside the same namenode.
Please respond by putting +1/-1/0 for the two proposals. The reason I am not
implementing the full set of functionality right now is because 0.19 cutoff
data is only a few days away!
> 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, 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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