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Colin Patrick McCabe commented on HDFS-5294:
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This is a duplicate of the earlier HADOOP-9780. I propose that we close this
issue as duplicate and move the discussion to there. If we do end up making
this change, it will affect more than just HDFS, so it doesn't make sense to
have this be an HDFS (as opposed to common JIRA) anyway.
> DistributedFileSystem#getFileLinkStatus should not fully qualify the link
> target
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> Key: HDFS-5294
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5294
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: hdfs-client
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0-alpha, 3.0.0
> Reporter: Daryn Sharp
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> The NN returns a {{FileStatus}} containing the exact link target as specified
> by the user at creation. However,
> {{DistributedFileSystem#getFileLinkStatus}} explicit overwrites the target
> with the fully scheme qualified path lookup. This causes multiple issues
> such as:
> # Prevents clients from discerning if the target is relative or absolute
> # Mangles a target that is not intended to be a path
> # Causes incorrect resolution with multi-layered filesystems - ie. the link
> should be resolved relative to a higher level fs (ie. viewfs, chroot,
> filtered, etc)
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