Steve Loughran

Tested: S3 london, `-Dparallel-tests -DtestsThreadCount=9` One failure due to SDK update not telling us off any more. ``` [ERROR] Tests run: 2, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed:...

@saikatroy038 the two commits here are ready to be cherrypicked.

Forced push of saikat's final PR and a checkstyle fix. final test run and review underway...If I'm happy this will be what I merge in

I am +1 pending yetus; while I've done some of this most of the work is from others

ok, ready to merge. doing a local flattening of the PR as with the merges and things it's got complex. then will push up the final single patch

I'm away until 2025; will reply to comments then. Thanks for the review.

I'm back, don't think I've forgotten this. In fact I've been actually setting up a test-only-loop for hadoop for regression testing parquet support through the cloud connectors. https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/7285

ah, did neglect this didn't I? will revisit.

can be seen on master with hadoop 3.3.5+ i.e. when vector IO went in. full stacks on that branch ``` [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] T E S T S [INFO] -------------------------------------------------------...

+ @mukund-thakur @ahmarsuhail @cnauroth trying to put this together. No attempts to address, just * explicit ability to turn it off in localfs * capability to declare when slicing still...