Hemanth Yamijala created HADOOP-8765:
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             Summary: LocalDirAllocator.ifExists API is broken and unused
                 Key: HADOOP-8765
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8765
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: fs
            Reporter: Hemanth Yamijala
            Assignee: Hemanth Yamijala
            Priority: Minor


LocalDirAllocator.ifExists calls AllocatorPerContext.ifExists, which accesses 
the localDirsPath variable that is uninitialised. Hence, any code that uses 
this API is likely to fail with a NullPointerException.

However, this API is currently not used anywhere else in trunk. The earlier 
usage was in IsolationRunner, that has since been removed via MAPREDUCE-2606.

Hence, we could remove this API for trunk, and if required, fix it for the 1.x 
branch.

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