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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:56:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Raghu Angadi (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (HADOOP-4044) Create symbolic links in HDFS
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Raghu Angadi commented on HADOOP-4044:
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> In this proposal, a symbolic link can still be relative or absolute. No kickback (via exception or otherwise) is needed to implement this proposal.
Does it mean extra RPC as in the patch? If not, how does open() look?

> Create symbolic links in HDFS
> -----------------------------
>
>                 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
>
>
> 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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