Here is a JIRA that talks about a file-change-log (but no work has been done yet)
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1179 thanks, dhruba On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Harsh J <qwertyman...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is no such information (history of atime changes, although atime > is held for every file in the NN) held by the NameNode right now. I > think HDFS-782 is slightly relevant to maintaining a 'hot-zone' info, > although at a block level and among datanodes. I couldn't find a jira > that talks about keeping a list of atime modifications on the > NameNode. > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Gautam Singaraju > <gautam.singar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there a mechanism to get the list of files accessed on HDFS at the > > NameNode? > > Thanks! > > --- > > Gautam > > > > > > -- > Harsh J > www.harshj.com > -- Connect to me at http://www.facebook.com/dhruba