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Pete Wyckoff commented on HADOOP-4044:
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keep in mind that we will want to implement as close to posix as possible an api for this
in libhdfs: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4118. We may not expose all the functionality
of general URIs, but for the case of hdfs only, I think the API should be as simple as possible.
> Create symbolic links in HDFS
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> Key: HADOOP-4044
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4044
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: dfs
> Reporter: dhruba borthakur
> Assignee: dhruba borthakur
> Attachments: symLink1.patch
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> HDFS should support symbolic links. A symbolic link is a special type of file that contains
a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path and that
affects pathname resolution. Programs which read or write to files named by a symbolic link
will behave as if operating directly on the target file. However, archiving utilities can
handle symbolic links specially and manipulate them directly.
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