Github user JoshRosen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2002#discussion_r16365281 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/Utils.scala --- @@ -451,10 +451,56 @@ private[spark] object Utils extends Logging { /** * Get a temporary directory using Spark's spark.local.dir property, if set. This will always * return a single directory, even though the spark.local.dir property might be a list of - * multiple paths. + * multiple paths. If the SPARK_LOCAL_DIRS environment variable is set, then this will return + * a directory from that variable. */ def getLocalDir(conf: SparkConf): String = { - conf.get("spark.local.dir", System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir")).split(',')(0) + getOrCreateLocalRootDirs(conf)(0) + } + + /** + * Gets or creates the directories listed in spark.local.dir or SPARK_LOCAL_DIRS, + * and returns only the directories that exist / could be created. + */ + private[spark] def getOrCreateLocalRootDirs(conf: SparkConf): Array[String] = { + val isYarn = java.lang.Boolean.valueOf( + System.getProperty("SPARK_YARN_MODE", conf.getenv("SPARK_YARN_MODE"))) --- End diff -- If this becomes really expensive (e.g. many calls to fetchFile), you could cache the result in a field of SparkConf (or just make this into a private instance method of SparkConf). I could make those changes now, or we could wait to see if this is an actual performance problem. I guess the correct YARN logic is "if this process is running inside of a YARN container, then use the YARN directories". If so, I need a way to determine `isRunningInYarnContainer.` Is `SPARK_YARN_MODE` the right way to do this, or should I be using some other signal (or does SPARK_YARN_MODE need to be set differently so that it's not set on the driver when running in client mode)?
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