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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HADOOP-4044:
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Talked to Dhruba offline. He mentioned that the idea my previous
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is not easy to implement. I did not have much time to take a closer look.
So, I suggest we use Dhruba's implementation and do the improvement later.
> 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
> Fix For: 0.20.0
>
> Attachments: 4044_20081030spi.java, HADOOP-4044-strawman.patch,
> symLink1.patch, symLink1.patch, symLink11.patch, symLink12.patch,
> symLink13.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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