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Allen Wittenauer commented on HDFS-1179:
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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.

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