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this duration will be cleared as well.
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+ <td>spark.hadoop.validateOutputSpecs</td>
+ <td>true</td>
+ <td>If set to true, validates the output specification (e.g. checking if the output directory already exists)
+ used in saveAsHadoopFile and other variants. This can be disabled to silence exceptions due to pre-existing
+ output directories. We recommend that users do not disable this except if trying to achieve compatibility with
+ previous versions of Spark. Simply use Hadoop's FileSystem API to delete output directories by hand.</td>
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#### Networking