THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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This is an HDFS root directory under which Hive's REPL DUMP command will operate, creating dumps to replicate along to other warehouses.
hive.repl.replica.functions.root.dir
Root directory on the replica warehouse where the repl sub-system will store jars from the primary warehouse
Blobstore (i.e. Amazon S3)
Starting in release 2.2.0, a set of configurations was added to enable read/write performance improvements when working with tables stored on blobstore systems, such as Amazon S3.
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