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Michael England commented on FLUME-2653:
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This would be VERY useful for use cases where you are streaming data into a
directory via flume and querying it in real time with Drill. I have run into a
number of issues where the file gets pulled underneath a Drill query causing an
exception to be raised and the query to fail.
> Allow inUseSuffix to be null/empty
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> Key: FLUME-2653
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2653
> Project: Flume
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Sinks+Sources
> Affects Versions: v1.5.1
> Reporter: Andrew Jones
> Labels: hdfssink
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> At the moment, it doesn't seem possible to set the null/empty. We've tried
> {{''}} which just adds the quotes to the end, and setting to nothing, which
> just uses the default {{.tmp}}.
> We want the _in use_ file to have the same name as the _closed_ file, so we
> can read from files that are in use without the file moving from underneath
> us. In our use case, we know that an in use file is still readable and
> parseable, because it is just text with a JSON document per line.
> It looks like [the HDFS sink
> code|https://github.com/apache/flume/blob/542b1695033d330eb00ae81713fdc838b88332b6/flume-ng-sinks/flume-hdfs-sink/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/sink/hdfs/BucketWriter.java#L618]
> can handle this change already, but at the moment there is no way to set the
> {{bucketPath}} and {{targetPath}} to be the same.
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