FlumeNG Tail source

[Brock Noland <br...@cloudera.com>]

Hello,

A student today told me that a tail source was not going to be
supported in FlumeNG. I know it's not currently implemented (other
than exec source tail -F). However is there a plan to specifically not
support a pure java tail source?

Brock

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Re: FlumeNG Tail source

[juhani connolly <ju...@cyberagent.co.jp>]

Hi Brock,

I contributed a tail source a while back, but after discussing it, the 
concensus was that it was a major source of problems in OG(partially 
because java can't track inodes), and that for cases where exec tail -F 
wasn't good enough, that a custom programming that feeds an avro/thrift 
source would be the best approach.

On 02/17/2012 03:23 AM, Brock Noland wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A student today told me that a tail source was not going to be
> supported in FlumeNG. I know it's not currently implemented (other
> than exec source tail -F). However is there a plan to specifically not
> support a pure java tail source?
>
> Brock
>