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Sanjay Radia commented on HADOOP-4044:
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Assuming that the vote for not using exceptions for rpc interface passes (I 
have voted the +0), should we consider modifying the
rpc interface a little further:
- return all HDFS exceptions as part of the return status rather then as 
exceptions. The only exception returned is the IOException when the rpc fails 
for some reason. 
- this would make the approach consistent - all status and information returned 
from the NN is part of the XXXResult object for each method XXX.

> Create symbolic links in HDFS
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-4044
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4044
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: dfs
>            Reporter: dhruba borthakur
>            Assignee: dhruba borthakur
>         Attachments: symLink1.patch, symLink1.patch, symLink4.patch, 
> symLink5.patch, symLink6.patch, symLink8.patch, symLink9.patch
>
>
> HDFS should support symbolic links. A symbolic link is a special type of file 
> that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an 
> absolute or relative path and that affects pathname resolution. Programs 
> which read or write to files named by a symbolic link will behave as if 
> operating directly on the target file. However, archiving utilities can 
> handle symbolic links specially and manipulate them directly.

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