ah okay.  so - in default hadoop dfs, the workingDir is (i beleive)
/user/hadoop/ , because as i recall when putting a file into hdfs, that
seems to be where the files naturally end up if there is no path
specified.

Hi guys:  What is the relationship between the "working directory" in the
FileSystem class (filesystem.workingDir), compared with the
mapred.local.dir properties ?

It seems like these would essentially refer to the same thing?
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