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Colin Patrick McCabe commented on HDFS-4019:
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Thanks for the review, Steve. Since symlinks are currently disabled in
branch-2, it might be better to work on the subtasks of HADOOP-10019 first.
Some of them touch on semantic issues like the one you pointed out (what
happens when the target exists already and is a directory, etc.) I think it
will be difficult to get a shell command that works well until we decide on
things like HADOOP-9780 (just to pick one 10019 subtask)
> FSShell should support creating symlinks
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> Key: HDFS-4019
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4019
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: tools
> Affects Versions: 2.0.3-alpha
> Reporter: Colin Patrick McCabe
> Assignee: Colin Patrick McCabe
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: HDFS-4019.001.patch, HDFS-4019.002.patch,
> HDFS-4019.003.patch
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> FSShell should support creating symlinks. This would allow users to create
> symlinks from the shell without having to write a Java program.
> One thing that makes this complicated is that FSShell currently uses
> FileSystem internally, and symlinks are currently only supported by the
> FileContext API. So either FSShell would have to be ported to FileContext,
> or symlinks would have to be added to FileSystem. Or perhaps we could open a
> FileContext only when symlinks were necessary, but that seems messy.
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