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eric baldeschwieler commented on HDFS-245:
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Hi Folks,
It seems folks position on this issue have not changed since the bug was first
discussed many moons ago. Doug has objected to the use of exceptions since
first proposed. Several committers have objected to the no exception based
approach since it was first proposed.
We seem to have no mechanism for resolving such disputes. It appears this
feature has missed 21 as a result, which is a pity since everyone agrees that
this would be a useful feature. Given the high degree of interest in the
feature, I'd suggest that we can probably vote it into the 21 release in a week
or two if we can get to a consensus on the design.
How do we get passed the veto impasse?
E14
> Create symbolic links in HDFS
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>
> Key: HDFS-245
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-245
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: dhruba borthakur
> Assignee: Eli Collins
> Attachments: 4044_20081030spi.java, HADOOP-4044-strawman.patch,
> symlink-0.20.0.patch, symLink1.patch, symLink1.patch, symLink11.patch,
> symLink12.patch, symLink13.patch, symLink14.patch, symLink15.txt,
> symLink15.txt, 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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