Bikas Saha created HADOOP-8374: ---------------------------------- Summary: Improve support for hard link manipulation on Windows Key: HADOOP-8374 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8374 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 1.0.0 Reporter: Bikas Saha Assignee: Bikas Saha Fix For: 1.0.3
Hard link support for Windows does not work properly. There is some refactoring needed in the code. Also, the code currently executes the fsutil command to manipulate hard links. fsutil requires admin privileges on recent versions of Windows. The main features needed are the ability to create hard links to a file and count the number of hard links to a file. So we could use mklink to create hard links and write a custom executable to count hard links. Or use a custom executable to do both using Windows API's. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira