Zhe Zhang created HADOOP-13055: ---------------------------------- Summary: Implement linkMergeSlash for ViewFs Key: HADOOP-13055 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13055 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: New Feature Components: fs, viewfs Reporter: Zhe Zhang Assignee: Zhe Zhang
In a multi-cluster environment it is sometimes useful to operate on the root / slash directory of an HDFS cluster. E.g., list all top level directories. Quoting the comment in {{ViewFs}}: {code} * A special case of the merge mount is where mount table's root is merged * with the root (slash) of another file system: * <ul> * <li> fs.viewfs.mounttable.default.linkMergeSlash=hdfs://nn99/ * </ul> * In this cases the root of the mount table is merged with the root of * <b>hdfs://nn99/ </b> {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)