We have hadoop cluster where default replication factor (dfs.replication) is set to 1 ( this cluster is just plug and play, hence we don't need to store more than 1 copies). When we used drill *CTAS*, it has created table on *HDFS* with their own *replication factor of 3. * *Questions are *- 1. why cant it uses Hadoop default replication factor ? 2. Is there any setting in Drill to change hadoop replication factor realtime ?