diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FsConfig.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FsConfig.java
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-/**
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.hadoop.fs;
-
-import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeys.FS_HOME_DIR_DEFAULT;
-import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeys.FS_HOME_DIR_KEY;
-import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.FS_DEFAULT_NAME_DEFAULT;
-import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.FS_DEFAULT_NAME_KEY;
-import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.IO_FILE_BUFFER_SIZE_DEFAULT;
-import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.IO_FILE_BUFFER_SIZE_KEY;
-
-import java.net.URI;
-
-import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
-
-/** 
- * This class is thin layer to manage the FS related keys in
- * a configuration object.
- * It provides convenience static method to set and get the keys from a 
- * a configuration.
- *
- */
-
-final class FsConfig {
-  private FsConfig() {}
-  
-  // Configuration keys  and default values in the config file
-  // TBD note we should deprecate the keys constants elsewhere
-  
-  
-  // The Keys
-  static final String FS_REPLICATION_FACTOR_KEY = "dfs.replication";
-  static final String FS_BLOCK_SIZE_KEY = "dfs.block.size";
-
-
-  // The default values
-  // Default values of SERVER_DEFAULT(-1) implies use the ones from
-  // the target file system where files are created.
-  static final short FS_DEFAULT_REPLICATION_FACTOR = 3;
-  static final long FS_DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE = 32 * 1024 * 1024;
-  
-  
-  
-  public static String getDefaultFsURI(final Configuration conf) {
-    return conf.get(FS_DEFAULT_NAME_KEY, FS_DEFAULT_NAME_DEFAULT);
-  }
-  
-  public static String getHomeDir(final Configuration conf) {
-    return conf.get(FS_HOME_DIR_KEY, FS_HOME_DIR_DEFAULT);
-  }
-  
-  public static short getDefaultReplicationFactor(final Configuration conf) {
-    return (short) 
-        conf.getInt(FS_REPLICATION_FACTOR_KEY, FS_DEFAULT_REPLICATION_FACTOR);
-  }
-  
-  public static long getDefaultBlockSize(final Configuration conf) {
-    return conf.getLong(FS_BLOCK_SIZE_KEY, FS_DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE);
-  }
-
-  
-  public static int getDefaultIOBuffersize(final Configuration conf) {
-    return conf.getInt(IO_FILE_BUFFER_SIZE_KEY, IO_FILE_BUFFER_SIZE_DEFAULT);
-  }
-  
-  public static Class<?> getImplClass(URI uri, Configuration conf) {
-    String scheme = uri.getScheme();
-    if (scheme == null) {
-      throw new IllegalArgumentException("No scheme");
-    }
-    return conf.getClass("fs." + uri.getScheme() + ".impl", null);
-  }
-
-  
-  /**
-   * The Setters: see the note on the javdoc for the class above.
-   */
-
-  public static void setDefaultFS(final Configuration conf, String uri) {
-    conf.set(FS_DEFAULT_NAME_KEY, uri);
-  }
-  
-  public static void setHomeDir(final Configuration conf, String path) {
-    conf.set(FS_HOME_DIR_KEY, path);
-  }
-  
-  public static void setDefaultReplicationFactor(final Configuration conf,
-    short rf) {
-    conf.setInt(FS_REPLICATION_FACTOR_KEY, rf);
-  }
-  
-  public static void setDefaultBlockSize(final Configuration conf, long bs) {
-    conf.setLong(FS_BLOCK_SIZE_KEY, bs);
-  }
-  
-  public static void setDefaultIOBuffersize(final Configuration conf, int bs) {
-    conf.setInt(IO_FILE_BUFFER_SIZE_KEY, bs);
-  }
-}