@jh070784 - Please read my previous response. Support right now is disabled for incompleteness of design/impl., not unavailable. API was added before it was later disabled, and calling it will yield an error as the source reads: https://github.com/cloudera/hadoop-common/blob/cdh5.5.1-release/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileContext.java#L1404-L1406 @michaelthoward - I am not aware of any major pick up of redoing symlink but if you're interested in history reading and contributing changes please start at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10019 which is the parent JIRA listing all the problems faced with its design and current implementation. ... View more