If youre using default flume-site.xml, it will open a new file every 30 seconds for writing to HDFS. So if your file takes longer than that to read, send to collector, acknowledge and write to HDFS youre gonna end up with more that one file on HDFS.
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Gaurav Khanna <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > A newbie question - perhaps it has already been answered and so apologize in > advance in that case. > > collectorSink("/tmp/bb/%H00/", "%{host}-") > > Used the above collector sink to read one file (around 78 M) and it wrote 4 > files into the /tmp/bb folder. I was wondering why that was done by the > collector sink and what is the rationale behind that? > > Thanks > Gaurav > > Gaurav Khanna -- Zijad Purković
