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Bill Zeller commented on HDFS-514:
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*They cannot be private final due to the changes that need to be made in HDFS-167. 

> DFSClient.namenode is a public field. Should be private.
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>                 Key: HDFS-514
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-514
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Bill Zeller
>            Assignee: Bill Zeller
>         Attachments: hdfs-514-2.patch
>
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