[HADOOP-10052] Temporarily disable client-side symlink resolution

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: fs
• Target Version/s: 2.3.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Andrew Wang
• Reporter: Andrew Wang
• Created: 16/Oct/13 17:26
• Updated: 24/Feb/14 20:58
• Resolved: 21/Oct/13 18:08

Description

As a follow-on to the JIRA that disabled creation of symlinks on the server-side, we should also disable client-side resolution so old clients talking to a new server behave properly.

Issue Links

• relates to: HADOOP-10162 Fix symlink-related test failures in TestFileContextResolveAfs and TestStat in branch-2