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E. Sammer commented on FLUME-931:
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I haven't yet looked at the patch, but the tail source in 0.9.x was the bane of
everyone's existence. It's much harder than it sounds (e.g. we need to do
things like track inodes in order to catch when files are rotated which is
difficult in java without JNI) and I'm extremely disinclined to re-include any
tail functionality unless those issues are resolved. Absolutely any ports of
the original, very problematic code aren't going to be a welcome addition to
1.x. All of that said, I'll try and take a look at the code and give it a fair
shake, but if it is simply the same thing from 0.9.x (albeit cleaned up) then
there's (almost) no advantage over exec source with tail -F.
> Flume NG TailSource
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> Key: FLUME-931
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-931
> Project: Flume
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Sinks+Sources
> Reporter: Juhani Connolly
> Fix For: v1.1.0
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> Attachments: flume-931.patch, flume-tail.patch
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> Flume NG currently doesn't have a TailSource as existed in OG
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