Github user witgo commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/828#issuecomment-43840745
@tdas
You're right. the code breaks the fault-tolerance properties of RDDs.
The perfect solution is the automatic cleanup and rebuilding shuffle data.
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