Entries in the FileSystem's Cache could be cleared when they are not used
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                 Key: HADOOP-6843
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6843
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Devaraj Das
             Fix For: 0.22.0


In FileSystem, there is a cache maintained for Filesystem instances. The 
entries in the cache are cleared only when explicit FileSystem.close is 
invoked. Applications are not careful on this aspect. Typically, they do 
FileSystem.get(), operate on the FileSystem, and then they just forget about 
it. Every FileSystem instance stores a reference to the Configuration object 
that it was created with. Over a period of time, as the cache grows, this can 
lead to OOM (we have seen this happening in our hadoop 20S clusters at Yahoo).

This jira aims at addressing the above issue.

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