Hi, The FileUtil.symlink command does nothing more than call the unix "ln" command, so it has no knowledge of how to work with Hadoop archive files, only plain files and directories. Is your archive on local disk, or in HDFS? Cheers, Dave
On 8 October 2012 13:43, Visioner Sadak <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried using FileUtil class for creating a symlink within hadoop actually i > want to create a symlink for my har directory so my code looks like > > FileUtil.symLink("/user2/","har:///user/5oct2012.har") > > but getting error like this > > org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil > - Command 'ln -s /user2/ har://user/5oct2012.har/' failed 1 with: ln: > target `har:///user/5oct2012.har/' is not a directory: No such file or > directory > > > > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Visioner Sadak <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> can we create symlinks within hadoop is ther any shell commands >> or can we do it thru java.... > >
