Github user dossett commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1044#issuecomment-198393099 @arunmahadevan Writers should never be writing to the same file. `getBasePathForNextFile` will increment the rotation value before opening the file. File name also includes `System.currentTimeMillis()` which should further prevent conflict. There's also a unit test that attempts to validate this by writing two different schemas and confirming that two files are created: https://github.com/dossett/storm/blob/STORM-1494/external/storm-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/storm/hdfs/bolt/AvroGenericRecordBoltTest.java#L156-L168
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