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[jira] Updated: (HADOOP-4044) Create symbolic links in HDFS

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4044?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

dhruba borthakur updated HADOOP-4044:
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    Attachment: symLink15.txt

Patch  merged with latest trunk. There are still some unit test failures.

> 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: 4044_20081030spi.java, HADOOP-4044-strawman.patch, symLink1.patch, symLink1.patch, symLink11.patch, symLink12.patch, symLink13.patch, symLink14.patch, symLink15.txt, symLink4.patch, symLink5.patch, symLink6.patch, symLink8.patch, symLink9.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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