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Eric Yang commented on CHUKWA-421:
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My only concern is modification time is easily changed by doing touch on the 
file.  It is a fragile approach.

> new logfile rotation detection scheme
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>
>                 Key: CHUKWA-421
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CHUKWA-421
>             Project: Hadoop Chukwa
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: data collection
>            Reporter: Ari Rabkin
>            Assignee: Ari Rabkin
>         Attachments: CHUKWA-421.patch
>
>
> Currently, we keep files open in order to detect rotation. This is wasteful 
> of file handles, doesn't work correctly across reboots, and I think we can do 
> better.

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