Is there actually a use case where we need "log.retention.ms"? In most cases, people would want to retain their logs for at least a few minutes I'd think.
Aditya On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Gwen Shapira <gshap...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Backward compatibility, I think. > > At least the "ms" one is fairly new, and I think we left the others to > avoid break configuration during upgrade. > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Mayuresh Gharat > <gharatmayures...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was thinking why we have 3 different configs for the same property (log > > retention) : > > > > "log.retention.ms" > > "log.retention.minutes" > > "log.retention.hours" > > > > Why don't we only use the Milliseconds? > > There are other properties as well like log Jitter, LogRollTime which > raise > > the same question in my mind. > > > > The reason I am asking this is that a user might misconfigure them like > > setting the log.retention.ms = 1 and log.retention.hours = 1. > > > > -- > > -Regards, > > Mayuresh R. Gharat > > (862) 250-7125 >
