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Wei-Chiu Chuang commented on HBASE-20433:
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Hi Voyta,
The reason for not caching FileSystem object is explained in HADOOP-13971. The
internal design causes memory leak and has resulted in quite a few tickets in
other projects.
Yes, therefore the responsibility falls on to the application (like HBase) to
manage the FileSystem object & close when appropriate.
> HBase Export Snapshot utility does not close FileSystem instances
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> Key: HBASE-20433
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20433
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Client, fs, snapshots
> Affects Versions: 1.2.6, 1.4.3
> Reporter: Voyta
> Priority: Major
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> It seems org.apache.hadoop.hbase.snapshot.ExportSnapshot disallows FileSystem
> instance caching.
> When verifySnapshot method is being run it calls often methods like
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.FSUtils#getRootDir that instantiate FileSystem
> but never calls org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem#close method. This behaviour
> allows allocation of unwanted objects potentially causing memory leaks.
> Related issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-15392
>
> Expectation:
> * HBase should properly release/close all objects, especially FileSystem
> instances.
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