Visioner- I hope it is not heresy to mention here, but I believe the MapR implementation of Hadoop supports symlink via NFS.
-Terry On 10/08/2012 10:20 AM, Visioner Sadak wrote: > thanks dave its in hdfs only....any other methods of creating a symlink > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Dave Beech <dbe...@apache.org > <mailto:dbe...@apache.org>> wrote: > > Hi, > The FileUtil.symlink command does nothing more than call the unix "ln" > command, so it has no knowledge of how to work with Hadoop archive > files, only plain files and directories. > Is your archive on local disk, or in HDFS? > Cheers, > Dave > > On 8 October 2012 13:43, Visioner Sadak <visioner.sa...@gmail.com > <mailto:visioner.sa...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I tried using FileUtil class for creating a symlink within hadoop > actually i > > want to create a symlink for my har directory so my code looks like > > > > FileUtil.symLink("/user2/","har:///user/5oct2012.har") > > > > but getting error like this > > > > org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil > > - Command 'ln -s /user2/ har://user/5oct2012.har/' failed 1 with: ln: > > target `har:///user/5oct2012.har/' is not a directory: No such file or > > directory > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Visioner Sadak > <visioner.sa...@gmail.com <mailto:visioner.sa...@gmail.com>> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> can we create symlinks within hadoop is ther any shell > commands > >> or can we do it thru java.... > > > > > > -- Terry Healy / the...@bnl.gov Cyber Security Operations Brookhaven National Laboratory Building 515, Upton N.Y. 11973
