[HADOOP-10021] add distCp support for symlinks

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: fs
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Colin McCabe
• Created: 04/Oct/13 02:16
• Updated: 28/Jan/14 23:37

Description

Add support for symlinks to distCp. We probably want something like rsync, where you can choose to copy symlinks as links, or copy what they refer to.