[CASSANDRA-3734] Support native link w/o JNA in Java7

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0 beta 1
• Assignee: Jason Brown
• Reporter: Jonathan Ellis

Authors

Jason Brown

Reviewers

Aleksey Yeschenko

• Created: 12/Jan/12 23:07
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 29/May/13 16:35

Description

Java7 provides native support for hard links: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/Files.html#createLink(java.nio.file.Path, java.nio.file.Path)

We should prefer this method when Java7 is the host.