Seems like the only reason is "too many files" issue, correct? File Crusher executed regularly might be better option than trying to tune it in flume
http://www.jointhegrid.com/hadoop_filecrush/index.jsp ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chen Wang <chen.apache.s...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:21 AM Subject: Re: best way to make all hdfs records in one file under a folder? To: user@flume.apache.org Chris, Its by every 6 minutes(thats why i set the roll time to be 60*5=300. the data size is around 15M. Thus I want them all in one file. Chen On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Christopher Shannon <cshannon...@gmail.com > wrote: > How is your data partitioned, by date? > > > On Monday, January 20, 2014, Chen Wang <chen.apache.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Guys, >> I have flume setup to flow partitioned data to hdfs, each partition has >> its own file folder. Is there a way to specify all the data under one >> partition to be in one file? >> I am currently using >> MyAgent.sinks.HDFS.hdfs.batchSize = 10000 >> MyAgent.sinks.HDFS.hdfs.rollSize = 15000000 >> MyAgent.sinks.HDFS.hdfs.rollCount = 10000 >> MyAgent.sinks.HDFS.hdfs.rollInterval = 360 >> >> to make the file roll on 15m data or after 6 minute. >> >> Is this the best way to achieve my goal? >> Thanks, >> Chen >> >>
