[HADOOP-12055] Deprecate usage of NativeIO#link

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Component/s: native
• Target Version/s: 2.8.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Andrew Wang
• Reporter: Andrew Wang
• Created: 02/Jun/15 20:14
• Updated: 30/Aug/16 01:26
• Resolved: 06/Jun/15 16:28

Description

Since our min version is now JDK7, there's hardlink support via Files. This means we can deprecate the JNI implementation and discontinue usage.