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Eli Collins commented on HDFS-1788:
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I think it makes sense to move FsShell over to FileContext (HADOOP-6424).
That's substantially less work than supporting symlinks in FileSystem and work
we need to do anyway.
> FsShell ls: Show symlinks properties
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> Key: HDFS-1788
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1788
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: tools
> Reporter: Jonathan Eagles
> Assignee: John George
> Priority: Minor
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> ls FsShell command implementation has been consistent with the linux
> implementations of ls \-l. With the addition of symlinks, I would expect the
> ability to show file type 'd' for directory, '\-' for file, and 'l' for
> symlink. In addition, following the linkname entry for symlinks, I would
> expect the ability to show "\-> <link target>". In linux, the default is to
> the the properties of the link and not of the link target. In linux, '-L'
> option allows for the dereferencing of symlinks to show link target
> properties, but it is not the default.
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