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Allen Wittenauer commented on HDFS-1179: ---------------------------------------- Agreed: this sounds exactly like the audit log facility. But it is important to have it exist outside the HDFS as well (debugging during a crash, security, etc), so we need to be able to do *both*. > Implement a file change log > --------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-1179 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1179 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: name-node > Reporter: dhruba borthakur > Assignee: dhruba borthakur > > The File Change Log (FCL) is a construct that records all metadata changes in > a file system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_change_log). This JIRA is to > discuss various high-level approaches to implementing such a FCL for HDFS. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.