Fixed: Apache Drill won't start on windows 7

[Peder Jakobsen | gmail <pj...@gmail.com>]

This appears to be a common issue that was addressed here:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-1907


Adam Gilmore
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=dragoncurve> added
a comment - 08/Jan/15 05:30

Fixed it - basically it's a problem that, by default, Drill tries to use
"/tmp" as the temporary path for storing its system databases (like storage
plugin registration etc.)

Of course, on Windows, this doesn't exist. The fix is to copy the
drill-override-example.conf to drill-override.conf and then modify all
occurrences of /tmp/ to be c:\\temp

This really needs to be added to the documentation, or another workaround
for Windows put in place.