Github user dossett commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/664#issuecomment-143341056
@harshach (or other commiters) do you have feedback about this PR?
Anecdotally, this has been very useful to us in production. We had an HDFS
restart, which created the exact situation I tested with (failed writes due to
HDFS safe mode) but the bolt recovered without a topology restart.
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