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Posted to common-user@hadoop.apache.org by Yasuyuki Watanabe <ya...@kddilabs.jp> on 2009/08/27 03:29:08 UTC

Symlink support

Hi!

Could someone tell me about the status of symbolic link support
in HDFS (HDFS-245)?

It looks like a patch is merged with latest trunk. So I would
like to know how good it works and whether or not the patch is
applicable for the current release of Hadoop.

We just start testing HDFS as a part of our ftp mirror site
(http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/). It works fine so far. But if HDFS
supports symlink feature, we could save lots of capacity :-)

Thanks.

Yasu