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sutanu das commented on FLUME-2498:
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Can this patch be backported for Flume 1.5 please?
We run Hortonworks Flume 1.5.2.2 and they will not backport this patch for us.
Reason we need this patch:
1. We want to restart log-files ingestion as events at a point which flume
stopped/recovered, yet, the loglines keep growing/appending
2. We want to get logfile even if logs rotate with new_names eg tail.log.x get
rotated to tail.log.y -- where -F of exec source doesnt work and spoolDir
doesnt work either (b/c of timestamp limitations)
> Implement Taildir Source
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>
> Key: FLUME-2498
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2498
> Project: Flume
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Sinks+Sources
> Reporter: Satoshi Iijima
> Fix For: v1.7.0
>
> Attachments: FLUME-2498-2.patch, FLUME-2498.patch
>
>
> This is the proposal of implementing a new tailing source.
> This source watches the specified files, and tails them in nearly real-time
> once appends are detected to these files.
> * This source is reliable and will not miss data even when the tailing files
> rotate.
> * It periodically writes the last read position of each file in a position
> file using the JSON format.
> * If Flume is stopped or down for some reason, it can restart tailing from
> the position written on the existing position file.
> * It can add event headers to each tailing file group.
> A attached patch includes a config documentation of this.
> This source requires Unix-style file system and Java 1.7 or later.
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