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Eli Collins commented on HDFS-245:
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The contrib failure is the same one mentioned previously, failure to download
cactus.
> Create symbolic links in HDFS
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> Key: HDFS-245
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-245
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: dhruba borthakur
> Assignee: Eli Collins
> Attachments: 4044_20081030spi.java, design-doc-v4.txt,
> designdocv1.txt, designdocv2.txt, designdocv3.txt,
> HADOOP-4044-strawman.patch, symlink-0.20.0.patch, symlink-25-hdfs.patch,
> symlink-26-hdfs.patch, symlink-26-hdfs.patch, symLink1.patch, symLink1.patch,
> symLink11.patch, symLink12.patch, symLink13.patch, symLink14.patch,
> symLink15.txt, symLink15.txt, symlink16-common.patch, symlink16-hdfs.patch,
> symlink16-mr.patch, symlink17-common.txt, symlink17-hdfs.txt,
> symlink18-common.txt, symlink19-common-delta.patch, symlink19-common.txt,
> symlink19-common.txt, symlink19-hdfs-delta.patch, symlink19-hdfs.txt,
> symlink20-common.patch, symlink20-hdfs.patch, symlink21-common.patch,
> symlink21-hdfs.patch, symlink22-common.patch, symlink22-hdfs.patch,
> symlink23-common.patch, symlink23-hdfs.patch, symlink24-hdfs.patch,
> symlink27-hdfs.patch, symlink28-hdfs.patch, symlink29-hdfs.patch,
> symlink29-hdfs.patch, symlink30-hdfs.patch, symlink31-hdfs.patch,
> symlink33-hdfs.patch, symlink35-hdfs.patch, symlink36-hdfs.patch,
> symlink37-hdfs.patch, symlink38-hdfs.patch, symlink39-hdfs.patch,
> symLink4.patch, symlink40-hdfs.patch, symlink41-hdfs.patch, symLink5.patch,
> symLink6.patch, symLink8.patch, symLink9.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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