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Sanjay Radia commented on HADOOP-4044: -------------------------------------- Owen, my first instinct was to implement it the way you suggested. However, one you add loop detection you may want to consider using the structure similar the one that Dhruba used to share that code. The addition of FOOImpl for each method does clutter the FileSystem code. Doug's suggestion of LinkableFileSystem is interesting, Not I don't think this is unique to HDFS. KFS may want to support this, BTW the local file system will want to support the normal dot-relative symlinks but perhaps not the remote one (ie the mounts ). So Linkable is not quite the distinction. (but that is just a question of naming). > Create symbolic links in HDFS > ----------------------------- > > 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.