The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable. Current permissions are: rw-rw-rw- (on Windows)

Question

I am running Spark on Windows 7. When I use Hive, I see the following error

The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable. Current permissions a         


        

Answer 1

Can please try giving 777 permission to the folder /tmp/hive because what I think is that spark runs as a anonymous user(which will come in other user category) and this permission should be recursive. I had this same issue with 1.5.1 version of spark for hive, and it worked by giving 777 permission using below command on linux

chmod -r 777 /tmp/hive