diff --git a/hbase-mapreduce/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/Import.java b/hbase-mapreduce/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/Import.java
index d58ff488ac8..f7405fde838 100644
--- a/hbase-mapreduce/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/Import.java
+++ b/hbase-mapreduce/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/Import.java
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ public class Import extends Configured implements Tool {
     }
 
     @Override
+    @edu.umd.cs.findbugs.annotations.SuppressWarnings(value = "EQ_COMPARETO_USE_OBJECT_EQUALS",
+        justification = "This is wrong, yes, but we should be purging Writables, not fixing them")
     public int compareTo(CellWritableComparable o) {
       return CellComparator.getInstance().compare(this.kv, o.kv);
     }
diff --git a/hbase-zookeeper/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/zookeeper/RecoverableZooKeeper.java b/hbase-zookeeper/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/zookeeper/RecoverableZooKeeper.java
index 0285a0d6915..9343ec29312 100644
--- a/hbase-zookeeper/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/zookeeper/RecoverableZooKeeper.java
+++ b/hbase-zookeeper/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/zookeeper/RecoverableZooKeeper.java
@@ -419,7 +419,6 @@ public class RecoverableZooKeeper {
                 // try to verify whether the previous setData success or not
                 try{
                   Stat stat = new Stat();
-                  startTime = EnvironmentEdgeManager.currentTime();
                   byte[] revData = checkZk().getData(path, false, stat);
                   if(Bytes.compareTo(revData, newData) == 0) {
                     // the bad version is caused by previous successful setData
@@ -556,7 +555,6 @@ public class RecoverableZooKeeper {
               // If the connection was lost, there is still a possibility that
               // we have successfully created the node at our previous attempt,
               // so we read the node and compare.
-              startTime = EnvironmentEdgeManager.currentTime();
               byte[] currentData = checkZk().getData(path, false, null);
               if (currentData != null &&
                   Bytes.compareTo(currentData, data) == 0) {
@@ -725,7 +723,6 @@ public class RecoverableZooKeeper {
   }
 
   public void sync(String path, AsyncCallback.VoidCallback cb, Object ctx) throws KeeperException {
-    long startTime = EnvironmentEdgeManager.currentTime();
     checkZk().sync(path, cb, null);
   }