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Otis Gospodnetic commented on FLUME-2671: ----------------------------------------- Could you have a look at FLUME-2498 and see if that will work for you? The hope is that FLUME-2498 will get into Flume 1.7 next month. > Add tail file source with the ability of tail file continuously after restart > flume. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: FLUME-2671 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2671 > Project: Flume > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Sinks+Sources > Environment: UNIX-like system > Reporter: Frank Yao > Priority: Minor > Attachments: FLUME-2671-0.patch > > > A Source for tail files. And it will store the offset where source has read > in an offset file. This feature enables source to tail continuously after > flume restarted. The offset file will rotate when its size over user > specified value so that the offset file will not get bigger and bigger until > make disk full. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)