diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FSDataOutputStream.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FSDataOutputStream.java
index 5970373a9f31a..cf5df706beeff 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FSDataOutputStream.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FSDataOutputStream.java
@@ -24,13 +24,14 @@
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.common.Abortable;
 
 /** Utility that wraps a {@link OutputStream} in a {@link DataOutputStream}.
  */
 @InterfaceAudience.Public
 @InterfaceStability.Stable
 public class FSDataOutputStream extends DataOutputStream
-    implements Syncable, CanSetDropBehind, StreamCapabilities {
+    implements Syncable, CanSetDropBehind, Abortable, StreamCapabilities {
   private final OutputStream wrappedStream;
 
   private static class PositionCache extends FilterOutputStream {
@@ -101,6 +102,15 @@ public void close() throws IOException {
     out.close(); // This invokes PositionCache.close()
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public void abort() throws IOException {
+    if (wrappedStream instanceof Abortable) {
+      ((Abortable) wrappedStream).abort();
+    } else {
+      wrappedStream.close();
+    }
+  }
+
   @Override
   public String toString() {
     final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/common/Abortable.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/common/Abortable.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..72880ca8bccf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/common/Abortable.java
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package org.apache.hadoop.fs.common;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience.Private;
+
+@Private
+public interface Abortable {
+  /*
+   * Instruct the object to abort it's current transaction. This will also close
+   * the object.
+   */
+  public void abort() throws IOException;
+}
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/MapFile.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/MapFile.java
index 51db0b3f0afef..0f4976bdbb693 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/MapFile.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/MapFile.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.common.Abortable;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile.CompressionType;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.CompressionCodec;
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ public class MapFile {
   protected MapFile() {}                          // no public ctor
 
   /** Writes a new map. */
-  public static class Writer implements java.io.Closeable {
+  public static class Writer implements java.io.Closeable, Abortable {
     private SequenceFile.Writer data;
     private SequenceFile.Writer index;
 
@@ -285,6 +286,15 @@ public Writer(Configuration conf,
       this.index = SequenceFile.createWriter(conf, indexOptions);      
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void abort() throws IOException {
+      try {
+        data.abort();
+      } finally {
+        index.abort();
+      }
+    }
+
     /** The number of entries that are added before an index entry is added.*/
     public int getIndexInterval() { return indexInterval; }
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/SequenceFile.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/SequenceFile.java
index f42848b00cd34..6088fa1e60601 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/SequenceFile.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/SequenceFile.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import java.security.MessageDigest;
 
 import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.common.Abortable;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.Options;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.*;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Options.CreateOpts;
@@ -834,7 +835,7 @@ public String toString() {
   }
   
   /** Write key/value pairs to a sequence-format file. */
-  public static class Writer implements java.io.Closeable, Syncable {
+  public static class Writer implements java.io.Closeable, Syncable, Abortable {
     private Configuration conf;
     FSDataOutputStream out;
     boolean ownOutputStream = true;
@@ -875,6 +876,15 @@ public static class Writer implements java.io.Closeable, Syncable {
       }
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void abort() throws IOException {
+      if (out instanceof Abortable) {
+        ((Abortable) out).abort();
+      } else {
+        out.close();
+      }
+    }
+
     public static interface Option {}
     
     static class FileOption extends Options.PathOption 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/TestSequenceFile.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/TestSequenceFile.java
index 044824356ed30..24601820bde64 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/TestSequenceFile.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/TestSequenceFile.java
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.times;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
+
 import org.mockito.Mockito;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
@@ -487,6 +491,19 @@ private void sortMetadataTest(FileSystem fs, Path unsortedFile, Path sortedFile,
     sorter.sort(new Path[] { unsortedFile }, sortedFile, false);
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testAbort() throws IOException {
+    Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+    LocalFileSystem fs = FileSystem.getLocal(conf);
+    Path path1 = new Path(System.getProperty("test.build.data",".")+"/test2.seq");
+    SequenceFile.Writer writer = SequenceFile.createWriter(fs, conf, path1,
+        Text.class, NullWritable.class, CompressionType.BLOCK);
+    writer.out = mock(FSDataOutputStream.class);
+    writer.append(new Text("file1-1"), NullWritable.get());
+    writer.abort();
+    verify(writer.out, times(1)).abort();
+  }
+
   @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
   @Test
   public void testClose() throws IOException {
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/AbortableRecordWriter.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/AbortableRecordWriter.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0f6a95606a365
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/AbortableRecordWriter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+package org.apache.hadoop.mapred;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.common.Abortable;
+
+public abstract class AbortableRecordWriter<K, V> implements RecordWriter<K, V>, Abortable {
+}
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/MapFileOutputFormat.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/MapFileOutputFormat.java
index bc746c5601013..931a85de8c03a 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/MapFileOutputFormat.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/MapFileOutputFormat.java
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ public RecordWriter<WritableComparable, Writable> getRecordWriter(FileSystem ign
                          compressionType, codec,
                          progress);
 
-    return new RecordWriter<WritableComparable, Writable>() {
+    return new AbortableRecordWriter<WritableComparable, Writable>() {
 
         public void write(WritableComparable key, Writable value)
           throws IOException {
@@ -78,7 +78,12 @@ public void write(WritableComparable key, Writable value)
         }
 
         public void close(Reporter reporter) throws IOException { out.close();}
-      };
+
+        @Override
+        public void abort() throws IOException {
+          out.abort();
+        }
+    };
   }
 
   /** Open the output generated by this format. */
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/MapTask.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/MapTask.java
index 17461b196b37e..45adb4f349bfd 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/MapTask.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/MapTask.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.common.Abortable;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission.FsPermission;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.DataInputBuffer;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.RawComparator;
@@ -461,6 +462,7 @@ void runOldMapper(final JobConf job,
     MapRunnable<INKEY,INVALUE,OUTKEY,OUTVALUE> runner =
       ReflectionUtils.newInstance(job.getMapRunnerClass(), job);
 
+    boolean successful = false;
     try {
       runner.run(in, new OldOutputCollector(collector, conf), reporter);
       mapPhase.complete();
@@ -469,6 +471,7 @@ void runOldMapper(final JobConf job,
         setPhase(TaskStatus.Phase.SORT);
       }
       statusUpdate(umbilical);
+      successful = true;
       collector.flush();
       
       in.close();
@@ -477,6 +480,13 @@ void runOldMapper(final JobConf job,
       collector.close();
       collector = null;
     } finally {
+      try {
+        if (!successful && collector instanceof Abortable) {
+          ((Abortable) collector).abort();
+        }
+      } catch (Exception ex) {
+        LOG.error(ex.getMessage());
+      }
       closeQuietly(in);
       closeQuietly(collector);
     }
@@ -811,7 +821,7 @@ void runNewMapper(final JobConf job,
   }
 
   class DirectMapOutputCollector<K, V>
-    implements MapOutputCollector<K, V> {
+    implements MapOutputCollector<K, V>, Abortable {
  
     private RecordWriter<K, V> out = null;
 
@@ -881,6 +891,15 @@ private long getOutputBytes(List<Statistics> stats) {
       }
       return bytesWritten;
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public void abort() throws IOException {
+      if (out instanceof Abortable) {
+        ((Abortable) out).abort();
+      } else {
+        out.close(reporter);
+      }
+    }
   }
 
   @InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate({"MapReduce"})
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/ReduceTask.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/ReduceTask.java
index b3c5de3c36745..29c300cba4028 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/ReduceTask.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/ReduceTask.java
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.Statistics;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.common.Abortable;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.DataInputBuffer;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.RawComparator;
@@ -456,6 +457,13 @@ public void collect(OUTKEY key, OUTVALUE value)
       
       out.close(reporter);
       out = null;
+    } catch (IOException ioe) {
+      if (out instanceof Abortable) {
+        try {
+          ((Abortable) out).abort();
+        } catch (IOException ignored){}
+      }
+      throw ioe;
     } finally {
       IOUtils.cleanupWithLogger(LOG, reducer);
       closeQuietly(out, reporter);
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/SequenceFileAsBinaryOutputFormat.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/SequenceFileAsBinaryOutputFormat.java
index 6b3a671c6d472..38a0166513c79 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/SequenceFileAsBinaryOutputFormat.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/SequenceFileAsBinaryOutputFormat.java
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ static public Class<? extends Writable> getSequenceFileOutputValueClass(JobConf
                     codec,
                     progress);
 
-    return new RecordWriter<BytesWritable, BytesWritable>() {
+    return new AbortableRecordWriter<BytesWritable, BytesWritable>() {
         
         private WritableValueBytes wvaluebytes = new WritableValueBytes();
 
@@ -151,7 +151,11 @@ public void close(Reporter reporter) throws IOException {
           out.close();
         }
 
-      };
+        @Override
+        public void abort() throws IOException {
+          out.abort();
+        }
+    };
 
   }
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/SequenceFileOutputFormat.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/SequenceFileOutputFormat.java
index d1040a6229cc0..f53002969dede 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/SequenceFileOutputFormat.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/SequenceFileOutputFormat.java
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ public RecordWriter<K, V> getRecordWriter(
                                 codec,
                                 progress);
 
-    return new RecordWriter<K, V>() {
+    return new AbortableRecordWriter<K, V>() {
 
         public void write(K key, V value)
           throws IOException {
@@ -77,7 +77,12 @@ public void write(K key, V value)
         }
 
         public void close(Reporter reporter) throws IOException { out.close();}
-      };
+
+        @Override
+        public void abort() throws IOException {
+          out.abort();
+        }
+    };
   }
 
   /** Open the output generated by this format. */
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/TextOutputFormat.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/TextOutputFormat.java
index bf2f44733d2a3..e34c1091dc2be 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/TextOutputFormat.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/TextOutputFormat.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream;
 
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.common.Abortable;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.CompressionCodec;
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@
 public class TextOutputFormat<K, V> extends FileOutputFormat<K, V> {
 
   protected static class LineRecordWriter<K, V>
-    implements RecordWriter<K, V> {
+    implements RecordWriter<K, V>, Abortable {
     private static final byte[] NEWLINE =
       "\n".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
 
@@ -97,6 +98,15 @@ public synchronized void write(K key, V value)
     public synchronized void close(Reporter reporter) throws IOException {
       out.close();
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public void abort() throws IOException {
+      if (out instanceof Abortable) {
+        ((Abortable) out).abort();
+      } else {
+        out.close();
+      }
+    }
   }
 
   public RecordWriter<K, V> getRecordWriter(FileSystem ignored,
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/lib/MultipleOutputFormat.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/lib/MultipleOutputFormat.java
index 90ce57aa36cc8..b89f2bb63d785 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/lib/MultipleOutputFormat.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/lib/MultipleOutputFormat.java
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.common.Abortable;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.AbortableRecordWriter;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileOutputFormat;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.RecordWriter;
@@ -79,7 +81,7 @@ public RecordWriter<K, V> getRecordWriter(FileSystem fs, JobConf job,
     final JobConf myJob = job;
     final Progressable myProgressable = arg3;
 
-    return new RecordWriter<K, V>() {
+    return new AbortableRecordWriter<K, V>() {
 
       // a cache storing the record writers for different output files.
       TreeMap<String, RecordWriter<K, V>> recordWriters = new TreeMap<String, RecordWriter<K, V>>();
@@ -115,6 +117,17 @@ public void close(Reporter reporter) throws IOException {
         }
         this.recordWriters.clear();
       };
+
+      @Override
+      public void abort() throws IOException {
+        Iterator<String> keys = this.recordWriters.keySet().iterator();
+        while (keys.hasNext()) {
+          RecordWriter<K, V> rw = this.recordWriters.get(keys.next());
+          if (rw instanceof Abortable) {
+            ((Abortable) rw).abort();
+          }
+        }
+      }
     };
   }