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Harsh J Chouraria commented on MAPREDUCE-1347:
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Note: Guava has been added as a dependency. A thread where it was agreed upon 
can be found here: 
http://search-hadoop.com/m/NrnW72tdHRD1/guava&subj=Add+Guava+as+a+dependency+

> Missing synchronization in MultipleOutputFormat
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>
>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-1347
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1347
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.20.2, 0.21.0, 0.22.0
>            Reporter: Todd Lipcon
>            Assignee: Harsh J Chouraria
>         Attachments: MAPREDUCE-1347.r2.diff, mapreduce.1347.r1.diff
>
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> MultipleOutputFormat's RecordWriter implementation doesn't use 
> synchronization when accessing the recordWriters member. When using 
> multithreaded mappers or reducers, this can result in problems where two 
> threads will both try to create the same file, causing 
> AlreadyBeingCreatedException. Doing this more fine-grained than just 
> synchronizing the whole method is probably a good idea, so that multithreaded 
> mappers can actually achieve parallelism writing into separate output streams.
> From what I can tell, the new API's MultipleOutputs seems not to have this 
> issue.

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