Re: Flume and HDFS integration

[Roman Shaposhnik]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Brock Noland <br...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> HI,
>
> 1) It's a sequence file, you can change it a text file if you want. See
> FileType here http://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html#hdfs-sink

Don't you also have to change a serialization format to get rid of the binary
structure completely? IOW, you'd have to add something like:
    agent.sinks.hdfsSink.hdfs.serializer =
org.apache.flume.serialization.BodyTextEventSerializer
?

Thanks,
Roman.