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File Change Log


  Caution   File Change Log is currently not officially supported, and Veritas strongly cautions against using it in a production environment. Although FCL is not 100% complete, it is functional and can be used to begin developing new applications. File Change Log will be fully operational in the next Veritas File System maintenance release.


This chapter includes the following topics:

The VxFS File Change Log (FCL) tracks changes to files and directories in a file system. Applications that typically use the FCL are usually required to:

These applications may include: backup utilities, webcrawlers, search engines, and replication programs.


  Note   The FCL tracks when the data has changed and records the change type, but does not track the actual data changes. It is the responsibility of the application to examine the files to determine the changed data.


FCL functionality is a separately licensable feature.

See the Symantec Storage Foundation Release Notes.