In PR #4346 , we assumed that when fluid.io/skip-check-mount-ready-target: "MountPod" is configured, symlink must be used; however, this assumption is not accurate. The configuration that decide if mount status should be check and the symlink configuration are two independent atomic configurations, and each configuration can be used independently or in combination with the other as following.

apiVersion: data.fluid.io/v1alpha1
kind: ThinRuntime
metadata:
  name: demo
  annotations:
    fluid.io/skip-check-mount-ready-target: "MountPod"
    data.fluid.io/metadataList: `[{"Labels": {"fluid.io/node-publish-method": "symlink"}, "selector": { "kind": "PersistentVolume"}}]`
spec:
  profileName: demo