Any thoughts ?
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Manoj Samel <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > If I take HDFS snapshot and then restore is to some other directory using > > hdfs dfs -cp /xxx/.snapshot/nnn /aaa/bbb > > want to confirm that there is a copy of data from files under snapshot to > the target director. I.e. there is no "linking" of new directory files to > existing directory or other non-copy optimizations etc. > > If the use case is that the data is readonly and does not need to be > duplicated (e.g. can be logically linked), is there a way to make a new > directory have same files without copying the data ? > > Thanks, > > Manoj >
