[HDFS-5006] Provide a link to symlink target in the web UI

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stephen Chu
• Created: 18/Jul/13 00:47
• Updated: 13/Dec/19 15:35
• Resolved: 13/Dec/19 15:35

Description

Currently, it's difficult to see what is a symlink from the web UI.

I've attached two screenshots. In screenshot 1, we see the symlink /user/schu/tf2-link which has a target /user/schu/dir1/tf2.

If we click the tf2-link URL, we arrive at a page that shows the path of the target (screenshot 2).

It'd be useful if there was a link to this target web UI page and some way of easily discerning if a file is a symlink.