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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HADOOP-6640:
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> The RPC is issued by the RPC client to verify the version # when creating a 
> RPC proxy. I am not sure if it is a good idea to delay this until there is an 
> application issued RPC. This would require a change to RPC implementation.

How about delay the RPC proxy initialization?  i.e. when creating a 
DistributedFileSystem, it does not create the RPC proxy to Namenode (or even 
not creating a DFSClient.)

> FileSystem.get() does RPC retries within a static synchronized block
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>                 Key: HADOOP-6640
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6640
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>         Environment: all
>            Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur
>            Assignee: Hairong Kuang
>            Priority: Critical
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> If using FileSystem.get() in a multithreaded environment, and one get() locks 
> because the NN URI is too slow or not responding and retries are in progress, 
> all other get() (for the diffferent users, NN) are blocked.
> the synchronized block in in the static instance of Cache inner class.

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