Github user pwendell commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/898#discussion_r13154110
--- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/FileLogger.scala ---
@@ -149,13 +155,13 @@ private[spark] class FileLogger(
/**
* Flush the writer to disk manually.
*
- * If the Hadoop FileSystem is used, the underlying FSDataOutputStream
(r1.0.4) must be
- * sync()'ed manually as it does not support flush(), which is invoked
by when higher
- * level streams are flushed.
+ * When using a Hadoop filesystem, we need to invoke the hflush or sync
+ * method. In HDFS, hflush guarantees that the data gets to all the
--- End diff --
I think we actually want a single space here after the sentence (I realize
this is inconsistent in this file, we should probably codify this in the style
guide).
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