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szetszwo edited comment on HADOOP-4044 at 10/6/08 5:13 PM:
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bq. Good question. I prefer FsXxx, but we've not been consistent in Hadoop, nor
is Java. I think java.net.URL was a mistake, that it should have been named
java.net.Url, that acronyms in class names should be capitalized, not all caps.
This makes them easier to parse.
It is the time to rename all the FSXxx classes since the pubic API is going to
be changed a lot in 0.20 anyway. I have created HADOOP-4357 for renaming the
classes.
was (Author: szetszwo):
bq. Good question. I prefer FsXxx, but we've not been consistent in Hadoop,
nor is Java. I think java.net.URL was a mistake, that it should have been named
java.net.Url, that acronyms in class names should be capitalized, not all caps.
This makes them easier to parse.
It is the time to rename all the FSXxx classes since the pubic API is going to
be changed a lot in 0.20 anyway.
> 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, symLink4.patch,
> symLink5.patch, symLink6.patch, symLink8.patch, symLink9.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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