Hi Phil, Thank you for reporting this. I believe Paul Chavez reported the same issue earlier today on the user@ list. Please file a jira and attach the patch. Someone will review and commit it!
Thanks, Hari On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Phil Scala <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Flume, was trying out some basic's on my Windows 7 dev machine > and I ran into problems with the spooling directory source, the issue was > in the > org.apache.flume.client.avro.ReliableSpoolingFileEventReader.getNextFile() > method... we were getting an instance of a DurablePositionTracker and not > calling close on it before then creating another instance... thus not > calling close on the underlying DataFileWriter. This left the file locked > in Windows and hence any delete attempts were failing...causing the Agent > to spin around and around trying to delete this file and creating endless > numbers of the temporary tracker files. > > I have the code change here and can submit a JIRA item, I don't see > anything similar in JIRA, but before I created something I wanted to > discuss this in the community (realizing that Windows is not supported) > > My code change is very simple, I added the close() call in the else block : > > org.apache.flume.client.avro.ReliableSpoolingFileEventReader.getNextFile() > .... > > if (!tracker.getTarget().equals(nextPath)) { > tracker.close(); > deleteMetaFile(); > } > else{ > //Explicitly close the tracker instance received so that > //there is no sharing violation on Windows. > tracker.close(); > } > tracker = DurablePositionTracker.getInstance(metaFile, nextPath); > .... > > Thanks > Phil > > Phil Scala > Developer / Architect > Global Relay > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > 866.484.6630 > New York | Chicago | Vancouver | London (+44.0800.032.9829) | > Singapore (+65.3158.1301) > Global Relay Archive supports email, instant messaging, BlackBerry, > Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Pivot, YellowJacket, LinkedIn, Twitter, > Facebook and more. > > Ask about Global Relay Message<http://www.globalrelay.com/services/message> > - The Future of Collaboration in the Financial Services World > > All email sent to or from this address will be retained by Global Relay's > email archiving system. This message is intended only for the use of the > individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information > that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under > applicable law. Global Relay will not be liable for any compliance or > technical information provided herein. All trademarks are the property of > their respective owners. > >
