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Allen Wittenauer commented on HDFS-6634:
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In conversations I've had around this idea in the past, is to basically publish 
the audit log to Kafka via a log4j appender.  This solves the scalability 
problem as well as prevents Yet Another API For Hadoop.  Plus, you can do this 
*today*.

> inotify in HDFS
> ---------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-6634
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6634
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: hdfs-client, namenode, qjm
>            Reporter: James Thomas
>            Assignee: James Thomas
>         Attachments: inotify-intro.2.pdf, inotify-intro.pdf
>
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> Design a mechanism for applications like search engines to access the HDFS 
> edit stream.



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