DFS and LocalFS don't keep track of the files opened. I think you need to close all the files explicitly.
Raghu. Alejandro Abdelnur wrote:
If using the FileSystem API directly, is there any side effect i the FileSystem instances (normally HDFS ones) are not being closed? Like open sockets, open file handles, memory leaks, etc. I'm using it from continuously running applications (webapps) so I want to ensure I won't have any issue. Normal usage pattern is getting a FileSystem instance using a JobConf, doing something and then dropping the FS instance. Thxs. A
