We have been hoping for the reintroduction of HDFS symlinks for several years.  Q: Is there any development at all going on related to HDFS symlinks?    From a distance, it seems like this should relatively easy ... all pathname resolution takes place on the namenode.  Q: Does anyone have any simple/brief insight as to why HDFS symlinks might be technically challenging?    ... View more

As of Thu 3 Mar 2016 this continues to fail during fresh HDP 2.4 installation using Ambari ambari-metrics-collector does not exist in the yum repositories [root@donald ~]# date Thu Mar 3 11:13:23 EST 2016 [root@donald ~]# [root@donald ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/HDP.repo [HDP-2.4] name=HDP-2.4 baseurl=http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/HDP/centos6/2.x/updates/2.4.0.0 path=/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 [root@donald ~]# [root@donald ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/HDP-UTILS.repo [HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.20] name=HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.20 baseurl=http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.20/repos/centos6 path=/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 [root@donald ~]# [root@donald ~]# yum search ambari-agent ambari-server ambari-metrics-collector Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.linux.duke.edu * epel: mirror.symnds.com * extras: mirror.millry.co * updates: mirror.dattobackup.com ========================== N/S Matched: ambari-agent =========================== ambari-agent.x86_64 : Ambari Agent ========================== N/S Matched: ambari-server ========================== ambari-server.x86_64 : Ambari Server Name and summary matches mostly, use "search all" for everything. Warning: No matches found for: ambari-metrics-collector [root@donald ~]# ... View more