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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   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.
+-->
+<FindBugsFilter>
+
+  <!-- Spotbugs 3.1.x not detecting that IOUtils::cleanupWithLogger
+       closes streams safely -->
+  <Match>
+    <Class name="org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.ImageWriter" />
+    <Method name="&lt;init&gt;" />
+    <Bug pattern="OBL_UNSATISFIED_OBLIGATION_EXCEPTION_EDGE" />
+  </Match>
+
+</FindBugsFilter>