Github user arunmahadevan commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1044#discussion_r55965843 --- Diff: external/storm-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/storm/hdfs/bolt/AbstractHdfsBolt.java --- @@ -145,13 +134,20 @@ public final void execute(Tuple tuple) { synchronized (this.writeLock) { boolean forceSync = false; + AbstractHDFSWriter writer = null; + String writerKey = null; + if (TupleUtils.isTick(tuple)) { LOG.debug("TICK! forcing a file system flush"); this.collector.ack(tuple); forceSync = true; } else { + + writerKey = getHashKeyForTuple(tuple); --- End diff -- Can't the partition path be used as the key?
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