hi, anyone know how to enable symlinks in HDFS?
I call it FileSystem.enableSymlinks() in client side,and try to create a symlink, it throw following exceptions: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: Symlinks not supported at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.createSymlink(FSNamesystem.java:2009) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeRpcServer.createSymlink(NameNodeRpcServer.java:963) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.createSymlink(ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.java:844) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.proto.ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos$ClientNamenodeProtocol$2.callBlockingMethod(ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos.java) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Server$ProtoBufRpcInvoker.call(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:585) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:928) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2013) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2009) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1556) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:2007) I go through all source code, don't find how to enable it. Anyone knows? Thanks in advance. Tang.
