Should we remove the hdfs module from Solr 10? Inspired by some of the discussions in https://lists.apache.org/thread/lltc0wjdghq18tt37zlrsd8ty35qsytl around removing the hadoop-auth module, I think that this is a real possiblity. I found some earlier work in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-14660 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-14021 that put us on the path for removing hdfs from Solr.
If folks wanted to make it a third party package or modules for Solr, the code has been separated, so that should be much more feasible. I know a lot of folks are on holiday, so I won't make any commits till January when folks are back in order to let folks voice their opinons, however I may explore putting together a PR to remove it to see what that looks like... Also, this is an interesting read: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SOLR/Deprecations Eric
