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Chris Nauroth updated HDFS-5303:
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Component/s: (was: namenode)
documentation
> A symlink within a snapshot pointing to a target outside the snapshot root
> can cause the snapshot contents to appear to change.
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> Key: HDFS-5303
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5303
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: documentation
> Reporter: Chris Nauroth
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> A snapshot is supposed to represent the point-in-time state of a directory.
> However, if the directory contains a symlink that targets a file outside the
> snapshot root, then the snapshot contents will appear to change if someone
> changes the target file (i.e. delete or append).
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