Github user mridulm commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/791#issuecomment-43485552
It should read MT safe - phone "autocorrected" it, sigh.
There could be any number of reasons for dropping block to fail (including
disk issues, etc).
When it does, we should not have inconsistent state.
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