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Colin Patrick McCabe commented on HADOOP-9780: ---------------------------------------------- The whole "remapping schemes" thing seems really questionable, based on this and the other discussions we've had... if there is no use case for that feature, I think we should drop it. > Filesystem and FileContext methods that follow symlinks should return > unresolved paths > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-9780 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9780 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Sub-task > Reporter: Colin Patrick McCabe > Priority: Minor > > Currently, when you follow a symlink, you get back the resolved path, with > all symlinks removed. For compatibility reasons, we might want to have the > returned path be an unresolved path. > Example: if you have: > {code} > /a -> b > /b > /b/c > {code} > {{getFileStatus("/a/c")}} will return a {{FileStatus}} object with a {{Path}} > of {{"/b/c"}}. > If we returned the unresolved path, that would be {{"/a/c"}} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)