Symbolic links

Active File Management (AFM) to cloud object storage supports symbolic links, which are also called symlinks.

When symlinks are created on an AFM to cloud object storage cache fileset, the relationship between the symlink file and the target file is maintained and the files are uploaded to the bucket. The symlinks relationship is maintained only if they are created in an AFM to cloud object storage fileset. If the symlinks relationship is not created in the AFM to cloud object fileset, it is not maintained.

The eviction of symlinks is not supported. AFM to cloud object storage does not follow the symlink to evict an original file. The eviction might throw an error while processing a symlink file and the next file is processed.