Those patches won't apply to an existing release so you'd need to use trunk to get symlinks. They will be included in the next release, however only via the FileContext API.
Thanks, Eli On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 6:16 PM, jiang licht <licht_ji...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanks, Eli. I actually just read hdfs-245 before I saw your reply. So, as > I understand, symlink is available by using some relevant patches, right? > From what you mentioned, it seems to me that symlink support is quite stable > as of now. Just curious, why not included in a recent hadoop release yet or > will it be considered in the next release? > > Thanks, > > Michael > > --- On Tue, 3/9/10, Eli Collins <e...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > From: Eli Collins <e...@cloudera.com> > Subject: Re: Symbolic link in Hadoop HDFS? > To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org > Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 8:01 PM > > Hey Michael, > > Symbolic links has been implemented [1] but are not yet available in a > Hadoop release. The implementation is only available to clients that > use the new FileContext API so clients like Hive need to be migrated > from using FileSystem to FileContext. This is currently being done in > Hadoop itself [2]. > > Thanks, > Eli > > [1] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-245 > [2] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6446 > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:10 PM, jiang licht <licht_ji...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Is there a way to create symlink in hdfs? And does LOAD function in Pig > follows such a link? Thanks! > > > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > > >
