HADOOP-9832. [RPC v9] Add RPC header to client ping (daryn)


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MAPREDUCE-5399. Unnecessary Configuration instantiation in IFileInputStream slows down merge. (Stanislav Barton via Sandy Ryza)

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HADOOP-9817. FileSystem#globStatus and FileContext#globStatus need to work with symlinks. (Colin Patrick McCabe via Andrew Wang)



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Merge remote branch 'origin/branch-2' into branch-2-gd
Merge remote branch 'origin/branch-2-gd' into fb-YAHOO-271-branch-2-gd