Hey guys, I have a quick question that I would like to ask based on what I found within the user and developer documentation.
This could cause some confusion for first time folks. *Background:* >From the documentation, a Flume source accepts event data and sends it into a channel. These event data are queued up in the channel. A sink takes data from the channel for processing (forwarding to another agent's source or central repo). Furthermore, *there can be one source, one or more channels, and one or more sinks for each agent. * Within an agent, *a flume source can write to multiple channels, but a sink can pull events from only one channel.* Hence, within this context, the relationship between a source and channel could be one to many but the relationship between a sink and channel is always one-to-one. * Potential Conflicting Information in Documentation*: On this page, http://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html#defining-the-flow It states that *"A source instance can specify multiple channels, but a sink instance can only specify one channel."* However, on this page, http://flume.apache.org/FlumeDeveloperGuide.html#sink I noticed the following sentence: *A Sink is associated with one or more Channels, as configured in the Flume properties file.* *Question and Next Steps*: Within what context is this an accurate statement for a sink instance? >From the context of a single agent, is this an accurate statement? If not can I create a JIRA issue and submit a patch to correct it?
