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We have recently seen an issue whereby launching a development instance before running spark on a given host results in spark being broken due to the way that some file system permissions had been set by this script.
Fixing the script is possible, but given that we hope to retire it soon, updating the guidance to uses may be an acceptable compromise.
Bug: T380494