[HADOOP-10020] disable symlinks temporarily

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.0
• Component/s: fs
• Target Version/s: 2.2.0
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change, Reviewed

Release Note

During review of symbolic links, many issues were found related to the impact on semantics of existing APIs such FileSystem#listStatus, FileSystem#globStatus etc. There were also many issues brought up about symbolic links, and the impact on security and functionality of HDFS. All these issues will be addressed in the upcoming release 2.3. Until then the feature is temporarily disabled.

• Assignee: Sanjay Radia
• Reporter: Colin McCabe
• Created: 04/Oct/13 02:01
• Updated: 30/Jun/15 07:11
• Resolved: 06/Oct/13 23:23

Description

disable symlinks temporarily until we can make them production-ready in Hadoop 2.3

Issue Links

• is related to: HADOOP-10109 Fix test failure in TestOfflineEditsViewer introduced by HADOOP-10052