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Sanjay Radia commented on HADOOP-6427:
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Doug> Symbolic links should be resolved relative to their source location. So 
hdfs://x/foo - > /bar should be interpreted as a link to hdfs://x/bar.

Is this because it is being interpreted relative to the volume root (ie 
hdfs://x) or because it us being interpreted relative to the client context, ie 
the client's root (/).
The client's root might be file:///.

I agree with your statement "Symbolic links should be resolved relative to 
their source location" if by "source" you mean  the place where the 
symlink occurs. In the HDFS-245 jira I called links like /bar to be 
volume-root-relative sym links.

As I pointed out in my previous comment that there are use cases for both. 

> Add Path isQualified
> --------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-6427
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6427
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Eli Collins
>            Assignee: Eli Collins
>         Attachments: hadoop-6427-1.patch
>
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> The Path class has a method to make a path qualified but not to query if the 
> path is qualified. This is needed for HADOOP-64221. In addition this patch 
> adds tests to TestPath that cover the file scheme. Note that "fully 
> qualified" applies to domain names not URIs so this function and it tests 
> also serve to define what we mean by a fully qualified path.

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