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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: symLink1.patch

This patch demonstrates the proposed changes to the FileSystem API. I would like early-comments to the changes to the public API before I implement the support for symlinks in HDFS.

> 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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