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Colin Patrick McCabe resolved HDFS-5021.
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    Resolution: Fixed

This was actually being caused by HADOOP-9817.  That bug led to the FSShell 
resolving all symlinks, which in turn meant that {{hadoop fs -rm}} would remove 
the target file, not the symlink itself.
                
> FileSystem#delete and FileSystem#rename should operate on symlinks, not their 
> targets
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>                 Key: HDFS-5021
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5021
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Colin Patrick McCabe
>             Fix For: 2.1.0-beta
>
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> Currently {{FileSystem#delete}} and {{FileSystem#rename}} don't behave as 
> expected on symlinks.  If you have {{/a/b/c}} as a link to {{/a/b/d}}, and 
> you try to delete {{/a/b/c}}, the target {{/a/b/d}} will be deleted instead.  
> Not only is this contrary to POSIX (and pretty much every other filesystem 
> standard) but this gives us no way to actually delete symlinks other than 
> deleting the containing directory.
> Let's fix this so deleting a symlink deletes the symlink itself.  It will 
> just require not dereferencing the last path component.  I haven't looked as 
> closely into rename but I think there are similar issues there

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