Github user mridulm commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1363#issuecomment-48774986
On the contrary, we should remove all filesystem.close() in spark : since
shutdown hooks commit/flush pending messages to hdfs.
filesystem object's are typically global and shared/cached across all uses.
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