private String createDirAndSetProperty(final String relPath, String property) {
    String path = getDataTestDir(relPath).toString();
    System.setProperty(property, path);
    conf.set(property, path);
    new File(path).mkdirs();
    LOG.info("Setting " + property + " to " + path + " in system properties and HBase conf");
    return path;
  }
Enable the short circuit read, unless configured differently. Set both HBase and HDFS settings,
including skipping the hdfs checksum checks.
hbase-testing-util/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseTestingUtility.java