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Daryn Sharp commented on HADOOP-8040: ------------------------------------- I need to find test to look at this more, but I would expect if the base {{FileSystem}} implementation is sufficiently generic, {{ViewFileSystem}} would "just work" because it would resolve the paths relative to the viewfs path. It should only be a problem if delegating the resolution into nested filesystems, ala {{ViewFileSystem}} mount points, and through a {{FilterFileSystem}}. > Add symlink support to FileSystem > --------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-8040 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8040 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: fs > Affects Versions: 0.23.0, 3.0.0, 2.0.3-alpha > Reporter: Eli Collins > Assignee: Andrew Wang > Attachments: hadoop-8040-1.patch, hadoop-8040-2.patch, > hadoop-8040-3.patch > > > HADOOP-6421 added symbolic links to FileContext. Resolving symlinks is done > on the client-side, and therefore requires client support. An HDFS symlink > (created by FileContext) when accessed by FileSystem will result in an > unhandled UnresolvedLinkException. Because not all users will migrate from > FileSystem to FileContext in lock step, and we want users of FileSystem to be > able to access all paths created by FileContext, we need to support symlink > resolution in FileSystem as well, to facilitate migration to FileContext. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira