That could be a good approach, yes. Ralph
> On Feb 8, 2016, at 6:33 PM, Pushkar Raste <[email protected]> wrote: > > @Ralph - Since your patch made through, I will modify my patch to a > different PathManager, if one wants to delete old files. Does that sound > fair? > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Ralph Goers (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> [ >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2875?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel >> ] >> >> Ralph Goers updated FLUME-2875: >> ------------------------------- >> Attachment: FLUME-2875.patch >> >> Updated patch to allow file name to use current time and date >> >>> Allow RollingFileSink to specify a file prefix and a file extension. >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Key: FLUME-2875 >>> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2875 >>> Project: Flume >>> Issue Type: Improvement >>> Components: Sinks+Sources >>> Affects Versions: v1.6.0 >>> Reporter: Ralph Goers >>> Assignee: Ralph Goers >>> Fix For: v1.7.0 >>> >>> Attachments: FLUME-2875.patch >>> >>> >>> Currently the RollingFileSink is hard-wired to use a specific >> PathManager that creates file based on a timestamp and and incrementing >> value. User's should have the ability to add a prefix to the file name and >> to add a file extension to properly identify the type of data in the file. >> In addition, user's should have the ability to provide their own >> PathManager implementation to allow them to construct the file names and >> locations however they desire. >> >> >> >> -- >> This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA >> (v6.3.4#6332) >>
