Thanks. Filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8765.
Hemanth On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Robert Evans <ev...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > I don't think it really matters that much. The API is limited Private and > unstable, so I would say just remove it, but fixing it is fine too. > Either way file a JIRA on it. > > --Bobby > > On 9/4/12 6:34 AM, "Hemanth Yamijala" <yhema...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>Stumbled on the fact that LocalDirAllocator.ifExists() is not used >>anywhere. The previous usage of this API was in the IsolationRunner >>that was removed in MAPREDUCE-2606. >> >>This API doesn't call the confChanged method and hence there is an >>uninitialised variable that causes a NullPointerException. So, either >>we can fix that, or remove the API if it's not required. This is also >>one of the reasons why the IsolationRunner was broken in 1.0. >> >>Thoughts ? >> >>Thanks >>hemanth >
