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Konstantin Boudnik commented on HDFS-245:
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I'd discussed the article from Doug's point with some folks from Hotspot team and what I hear
is basically this:
- using exceptions for control flow is bad idea (doh!)
- exceptions are slow enough although it's getting better because of relatively cheap object
creation
Also, Exceptions are tend to carry on a handful of information about internal states of a
system which might get exposed by a devoted 'user'.
> Create symbolic links in HDFS
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>
> Key: HDFS-245
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-245
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: dhruba borthakur
> Assignee: Eli Collins
> Attachments: 4044_20081030spi.java, HADOOP-4044-strawman.patch, symlink-0.20.0.patch,
symLink1.patch, symLink1.patch, symLink11.patch, symLink12.patch, symLink13.patch, symLink14.patch,
symLink15.txt, symLink15.txt, symLink4.patch, symLink5.patch, symLink6.patch, symLink8.patch,
symLink9.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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