Github user steveloughran commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4926#discussion_r148328550 --- Diff: flink-filesystems/flink-hadoop-fs/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/util/HadoopUtils.java --- @@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ public static Configuration getHadoopConfiguration(org.apache.flink.configuration.Configuration flinkConfiguration) { - Configuration result = new Configuration(); + // the HdfsConfiguration adds per default hdfs-site.xml and hdfs-default.xml + // as a default resource which is read from the class path + Configuration result = new HdfsConfiguration(); --- End diff -- It's not mandatory to load in HDFSConfiguration, as trying to connect to HDFS via FileSystem.get(hdfs://) kicks all this off.
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