diff --git a/other/java/hdfs2/src/main/java/seaweed/hdfs/SeaweedAbstractFileSystem.java b/other/java/hdfs2/src/main/java/seaweed/hdfs/SeaweedAbstractFileSystem.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e021401aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/other/java/hdfs2/src/main/java/seaweed/hdfs/SeaweedAbstractFileSystem.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+package seaweed.hdfs;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.DelegateToFileSystem;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+
+public class SeaweedAbstractFileSystem extends DelegateToFileSystem {
+
+    SeaweedAbstractFileSystem(final URI uri, final Configuration conf)
+            throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
+        super(uri, new SeaweedFileSystem(), conf, "seaweedfs", false);
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/other/java/hdfs2/src/main/java/seaweed/hdfs/SeaweedFileSystem.java b/other/java/hdfs2/src/main/java/seaweed/hdfs/SeaweedFileSystem.java
index d471d8440..85490c181 100644
--- a/other/java/hdfs2/src/main/java/seaweed/hdfs/SeaweedFileSystem.java
+++ b/other/java/hdfs2/src/main/java/seaweed/hdfs/SeaweedFileSystem.java
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.Progressable;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import seaweedfs.client.FilerProto;
 
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ import java.util.Map;
 
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.IO_FILE_BUFFER_SIZE_KEY;
 
-public class SeaweedFileSystem extends org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem {
+public class SeaweedFileSystem extends FileSystem {
 
     public static final int FS_SEAWEED_DEFAULT_PORT = 8888;
     public static final String FS_SEAWEED_FILER_HOST = "fs.seaweed.filer.host";
@@ -144,7 +145,7 @@ public class SeaweedFileSystem extends org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public boolean rename(Path src, Path dst) {
+    public boolean rename(Path src, Path dst) throws IOException {
 
         LOG.debug("rename path: {} => {}", src, dst);
 
@@ -155,12 +156,13 @@ public class SeaweedFileSystem extends org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem {
         if (src.equals(dst)) {
             return true;
         }
-        FileStatus dstFileStatus = getFileStatus(dst);
+        FilerProto.Entry entry = seaweedFileSystemStore.lookupEntry(dst);
 
-        String sourceFileName = src.getName();
         Path adjustedDst = dst;
 
-        if (dstFileStatus != null) {
+        if (entry != null) {
+            FileStatus dstFileStatus = getFileStatus(dst);
+            String sourceFileName = src.getName();
             if (!dstFileStatus.isDirectory()) {
                 return false;
             }
@@ -175,18 +177,20 @@ public class SeaweedFileSystem extends org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public boolean delete(Path path, boolean recursive) {
+    public boolean delete(Path path, boolean recursive) throws IOException {
 
         LOG.debug("delete path: {} recursive:{}", path, recursive);
 
         path = qualify(path);
 
-        FileStatus fileStatus = getFileStatus(path);
+        FilerProto.Entry entry = seaweedFileSystemStore.lookupEntry(path);
 
-        if (fileStatus == null) {
+        if (entry == null) {
             return true;
         }
 
+        FileStatus fileStatus = getFileStatus(path);
+
         return seaweedFileSystemStore.deleteEntries(path, fileStatus.isDirectory(), recursive);
 
     }
@@ -222,9 +226,9 @@ public class SeaweedFileSystem extends org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem {
 
         path = qualify(path);
 
-        FileStatus fileStatus = getFileStatus(path);
+        FilerProto.Entry entry = seaweedFileSystemStore.lookupEntry(path);
 
-        if (fileStatus == null) {
+        if (entry == null) {
 
             UserGroupInformation currentUser = UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser();
             return seaweedFileSystemStore.createDirectory(path, currentUser,
@@ -233,6 +237,8 @@ public class SeaweedFileSystem extends org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem {
 
         }
 
+        FileStatus fileStatus = getFileStatus(path);
+
         if (fileStatus.isDirectory()) {
             return true;
         } else {
@@ -241,7 +247,7 @@ public class SeaweedFileSystem extends org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public FileStatus getFileStatus(Path path) {
+    public FileStatus getFileStatus(Path path) throws IOException {
 
         LOG.debug("getFileStatus path: {}", path);
 
diff --git a/other/java/hdfs2/src/main/java/seaweed/hdfs/SeaweedFileSystemStore.java b/other/java/hdfs2/src/main/java/seaweed/hdfs/SeaweedFileSystemStore.java
index 9617a38be..f9aaa175f 100644
--- a/other/java/hdfs2/src/main/java/seaweed/hdfs/SeaweedFileSystemStore.java
+++ b/other/java/hdfs2/src/main/java/seaweed/hdfs/SeaweedFileSystemStore.java
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ public class SeaweedFileSystemStore {
         );
     }
 
-    public FileStatus[] listEntries(final Path path) {
+    public FileStatus[] listEntries(final Path path) throws IOException {
         LOG.debug("listEntries path: {}", path);
 
         FileStatus pathStatus = getFileStatus(path);
@@ -89,11 +89,11 @@ public class SeaweedFileSystemStore {
 
     }
 
-    public FileStatus getFileStatus(final Path path) {
+    public FileStatus getFileStatus(final Path path) throws IOException {
 
         FilerProto.Entry entry = lookupEntry(path);
         if (entry == null) {
-            return null;
+            throw new FileNotFoundException("File does not exist: " + path);
         }
         LOG.debug("doGetFileStatus path:{} entry:{}", path, entry);
 
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ public class SeaweedFileSystemStore {
             modification_time, access_time, permission, owner, group, null, path);
     }
 
-    private FilerProto.Entry lookupEntry(Path path) {
+    public FilerProto.Entry lookupEntry(Path path) {
 
         return filerClient.lookupEntry(getParentDirectory(path), path.getName());