HDFS +在HDFS文件夹到本地文件系统文件夹之间创建符号链接

Question

I searched in google but not find it,

is it possible to create link between HDFS folder to local folder?

example

we want to create link between folder_1 in HDFS to /home/hdfs_mirror local folder

HDFS folder:

su hdfs
$ hdfs dfs -ls /hdfs_home/folder_1

Linux local folder:

ls /home/hdfs_mirror 

Answer 1

I do not think it is possible.

This is because we are talking about two different File Systems (HDFS and Local FileSystem).

in case we want to keep syncing the Local Data Directory to HDFS directory then need to make use of some tools like Apache Flume.