Move the PR#468 of apache-incubator-spark to the apache-spark
"Adding an option to persist Spark RDD blocks into Tachyon."

Author: Haoyuan Li <haoyuan@cs.berkeley.edu>
Author: RongGu <gurongwalker@gmail.com>

Closes #158 from RongGu/master and squashes the following commits:

72b7768 [Haoyuan Li] merge master
9f7fa1b [Haoyuan Li] fix code style
ae7834b [Haoyuan Li] minor cleanup
a8b3ec6 [Haoyuan Li] merge master branch
e0f4891 [Haoyuan Li] better check offheap.
55b5918 [RongGu] address matei's comment on the replication of offHeap storagelevel
7cd4600 [RongGu] remove some logic code for tachyonstore's replication
51149e7 [RongGu] address aaron's comment on returning value of the remove() function in tachyonstore
8adfcfa [RongGu] address arron's comment on inTachyonSize
120e48a [RongGu] changed the root-level dir name in Tachyon
5cc041c [Haoyuan Li] address aaron's comments
9b97935 [Haoyuan Li] address aaron's comments
d9a6438 [Haoyuan Li] fix for pspark
77d2703 [Haoyuan Li] change python api.git status
3dcace4 [Haoyuan Li] address matei's comments
91fa09d [Haoyuan Li] address patrick's comments
589eafe [Haoyuan Li] use TRY_CACHE instead of MUST_CACHE
64348b2 [Haoyuan Li] update conf docs.
ed73e19 [Haoyuan Li] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:RongGu/spark-1
619a9a8 [RongGu] set number of directories in TachyonStore back to 64; added a TODO tag for duplicated code from the DiskStore
be79d77 [RongGu] find a way to clean up some unnecessay metods and classed to make the code simpler
49cc724 [Haoyuan Li] update docs with off_headp option
4572f9f [RongGu] reserving the old apply function API of StorageLevel
04301d3 [RongGu] rename StorageLevel.TACHYON to Storage.OFF_HEAP
c9aeabf [RongGu] rename the StorgeLevel.TACHYON as StorageLevel.OFF_HEAP
76805aa [RongGu] unifies the config properties name prefix; add the configs into docs/configuration.md
e700d9c [RongGu] add the SparkTachyonHdfsLR example and some comments
fd84156 [RongGu] use randomUUID to generate sparkapp directory name on tachyon;minor code style fix
939e467 [Haoyuan Li] 0.4.1-thrift from maven central
86a2eab [Haoyuan Li] tachyon 0.4.1-thrift is in the staging repo. but jenkins failed to download it. temporarily revert it back to 0.4.1
16c5798 [RongGu] make the dependency on tachyon as tachyon-0.4.1-thrift
eacb2e8 [RongGu] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/RongGu/spark-1
bbeb4de [RongGu] fix the JsonProtocolSuite test failure problem
6adb58f [RongGu] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/RongGu/spark-1
d827250 [RongGu] fix JsonProtocolSuie test failure
716e93b [Haoyuan Li] revert the version
ca14469 [Haoyuan Li] bump tachyon version to 0.4.1-thrift
2825a13 [RongGu] up-merging to the current master branch of the apache spark
6a22c1a [Haoyuan Li] fix scalastyle
8968b67 [Haoyuan Li] exclude more libraries from tachyon dependency to be the same as referencing tachyon-client.
77be7e8 [RongGu] address mateiz's comment about the temp folder name problem. The implementation followed mateiz's advice.
1dcadf9 [Haoyuan Li] typo
bf278fa [Haoyuan Li] fix python tests
e82909c [Haoyuan Li] minor cleanup
776a56c [Haoyuan Li] address patrick's and ali's comments from the previous PR
8859371 [Haoyuan Li] various minor fixes and clean up
e3ddbba [Haoyuan Li] add doc to use Tachyon cache mode.
fcaeab2 [Haoyuan Li] address Aaron's comment
e554b1e [Haoyuan Li] add python code
47304b3 [Haoyuan Li] make tachyonStore in BlockMananger lazy val; add more comments StorageLevels.
dc8ef24 [Haoyuan Li] add old storelevel constructor
e01a271 [Haoyuan Li] update tachyon 0.4.1
8011a96 [RongGu] fix a brought-in mistake in StorageLevel
70ca182 [RongGu] a bit change in comment
556978b [RongGu] fix the scalastyle errors
791189b [RongGu] "Adding an option to persist Spark RDD blocks into Tachyon." move the PR#468 of apache-incubator-spark to the apache-spark

Author: prabinb <prabin.banka@imaginea.com>

Closes #92 from prabinb/python-api-rdd and squashes the following commits:

51129ca [prabinb] Added missing Python RDD functions Added __repr__ function to StorageLevel class. Added doctest for RDD.getStorageLevel().