diff --git a/hyracks/hyracks-dataflow-hadoop/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/dataflow/hadoop/HadoopWriteOperatorDescriptor.java b/hyracks/hyracks-dataflow-hadoop/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/dataflow/hadoop/HadoopWriteOperatorDescriptor.java
index d9b41ce..95a4647 100644
--- a/hyracks/hyracks-dataflow-hadoop/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/dataflow/hadoop/HadoopWriteOperatorDescriptor.java
+++ b/hyracks/hyracks-dataflow-hadoop/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/dataflow/hadoop/HadoopWriteOperatorDescriptor.java
@@ -16,18 +16,13 @@
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 
-import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable;
-import org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile.Writer;
-import org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.CompressionCodec;
-import org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileOutputFormat;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.InputSplit;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
@@ -41,23 +36,18 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.Progressable;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils;
 
-import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksException;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.job.JobSpecification;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.hadoop.util.DatatypeHelper;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.file.AbstractFileWriteOperatorDescriptor;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.file.FileSplit;
 import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.file.IRecordWriter;
-import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.file.RecordWriter;
 
 public class HadoopWriteOperatorDescriptor extends AbstractFileWriteOperatorDescriptor {
 
-    private static String nullWritableClassName = NullWritable.class.getName();
-
     private  class HadoopFileWriter implements IRecordWriter {
 
         Object recordWriter;
         JobConf conf;
-        final boolean useNewMapReduceLib;
         Path finalOutputFile;
         Path tempOutputFile;
       
@@ -67,12 +57,11 @@
             this.conf = conf;
             this.finalOutputFile = outputFile;
             this.tempOutputFile = tempOutputFile;
-            useNewMapReduceLib = conf.getUseNewMapper();
         }
 
         @Override
         public void write(Object[] record) throws Exception {
-            if (useNewMapReduceLib){
+            if (conf.getUseNewMapper()){
                 ((org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.RecordWriter)recordWriter).write(record[0], record[1]);
             } else {
                 ((org.apache.hadoop.mapred.RecordWriter)recordWriter).write(record[0], record[1]);
@@ -82,12 +71,12 @@
         @Override
         public void close() {
             try {
-                if (useNewMapReduceLib){
+                if (conf.getUseNewMapper()){
                    ((org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.RecordWriter)recordWriter).close(new TaskAttemptContext(conf, new TaskAttemptID()));
                 } else {
                     ((org.apache.hadoop.mapred.RecordWriter)recordWriter).close(null);
-                    FileSystem.get(conf).rename( tempOutputFile, finalOutputFile);
                 }
+                FileSystem.get(conf).rename( tempOutputFile, finalOutputFile);
             } catch (Exception e) {
                 e.printStackTrace();
             }
@@ -137,46 +126,34 @@
         Path finalOutputFile = null;
         checkIfCanWriteToHDFS(new FileSplit[] { fileSplit });
         Object recordWriter  = null;
-        boolean sequenceFileOutput = false;
         Object outputFormat = null;
+        String taskAttempId = new TaskAttemptID().toString();
+        conf.set("mapred.task.id",taskAttempId);
+        outputPath = new Path(conf.get("mapred.output.dir"));
+        outputTempPath = new Path(outputPath,"_temporary");
+        if(outputPath != null && !fileSystem.exists(outputPath)) {
+            fileSystem.mkdirs(outputTempPath);
+        }
+        String suffix =  new String("part-r-00000");
+        suffix = new String(suffix.substring(0, suffix.length() - ("" + index).length()));
+        suffix = suffix + index;
+        tempOutputFile = new Path(outputTempPath,"_" + taskAttempId + "/" + suffix);
+        if (conf.getNumReduceTasks() == 0 ) {
+            suffix.replace("-r-", "-m-");
+        }
+        finalOutputFile = new Path(outputPath,suffix);
         if(conf.getUseNewMapper()){
             org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.OutputFormat newOutputFormat = (org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.OutputFormat)ReflectionUtils.newInstance((new JobContext(conf,null)).getOutputFormatClass(),conf);
-            if(newOutputFormat instanceof org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.SequenceFileOutputFormat) {
-                 sequenceFileOutput = true;
-            }else{
                 recordWriter = newOutputFormat.getRecordWriter(new TaskAttemptContext(conf, new TaskAttemptID()));
-            }    
         }else {
-            if(conf.getOutputFormat() instanceof SequenceFileOutputFormat) {
-                sequenceFileOutput = true;
-            } else {
-                String taskAttempId = new TaskAttemptID().toString();
-                conf.set("mapred.task.id",taskAttempId);
-                outputPath = new Path(conf.get("mapred.output.dir"));
-                outputTempPath = new Path(outputPath,"_temporary");
-                if(outputPath != null && !fileSystem.exists(outputPath)) {
-                    fileSystem.mkdirs(outputTempPath);
-                }
-                String suffix = new String("part-00000");
-                suffix = new String(suffix.substring(0, suffix.length() - ("" + index).length()));
-                suffix = suffix + index;
-                tempOutputFile = new Path(outputTempPath,"_" + taskAttempId + "/" + suffix);
-                finalOutputFile = new Path(outputPath,suffix);
-                recordWriter = conf.getOutputFormat().getRecordWriter(fileSystem, conf,suffix, new Progressable() {
-                @Override
-                public void progress() {}
-                });
-            }
+           recordWriter = conf.getOutputFormat().getRecordWriter(fileSystem, conf,suffix, new Progressable() {
+           @Override
+           public void progress() {}
+           });
         }
-        if(!sequenceFileOutput) {
-            return new HadoopFileWriter(recordWriter,tempOutputFile,finalOutputFile,conf);
-        } else { 
-            Class keyClass = Class.forName(conf.getOutputKeyClass().getName());
-            Class valueClass = Class.forName(conf.getOutputValueClass().getName());
-            conf.setClass("mapred.output.compression.codec", GzipCodec.class, CompressionCodec.class);
-            Writer writer = SequenceFile.createWriter(fileSystem, conf, path, keyClass, valueClass);
-            return new HadoopSequenceWriter(writer);    
-        }   
+        
+        
+        return new HadoopFileWriter(recordWriter, tempOutputFile, finalOutputFile, conf);
     }