Re: Unable to delete symlinks in HDFS via FileContext

2013-04-25 Thread Andrew Wang
Hi Dia, That's definitely a weird one, let's try to figure out what's going on. Can you possibly share the complete FileContext snippet you're using to do this test? You could also try using fully-qualified URIs everywhere (including for symlink creation), to remove any possible ambiguity. Also,

Unable to delete symlinks in HDFS via FileContext

2013-04-24 Thread Dia Kharrat
Hi, We have an HDFS setup (v2.0.0) managed by Cloudera. I'm having trouble getting the FileStatus of a symlink or deleting it. According to the documentation, FileContext#getFileLinkStatus() or FileContext#delete() should operate on the symlink itself if the provided path is a symlink. However,