[HADOOP-10020] disable symlinks temporarily - ASF JIRA

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Target Version/s:

2.2.0
Hadoop Flags:

Incompatible change, Reviewed
Release Note:

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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.

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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.

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

HADOOP-10020-b2.001.patch
10/Dec/13 19:08
13 kB
Colin McCabe
Hadoop-10020-4-forBranch2.1beta.patch
06/Oct/13 22:56
9 kB
Sanjay Radia
Hadoop-10020-4.patch
06/Oct/13 20:05
10 kB
Sanjay Radia
Hadoop-10020-3.patch
06/Oct/13 17:52
10 kB
Sanjay Radia
Hadoop-10020-2.patch
06/Oct/13 01:29
9 kB
Sanjay Radia
Hadoop-10020.patch
05/Oct/13 06:14
7 kB
Sanjay Radia
0001-HADOOP-10020-addendum.-Fix-TestOfflineEditsViewer.patch
18/Nov/13 18:40
2 kB
Colin McCabe

is related to

HADOOP-10109 Fix test failure in TestOfflineEditsViewer introduced by HADOOP-10052