Currently only works with hadoopcli

def is_writable(self):
        """
        Currently only works with hadoopcli
        """
        if "/" in self.path:
            # example path: /log/ap/2013-01-17/00
            parts = self.path.split("/")
            # start with the full path and then up the tree until we can check
            length = len(parts)
            for part in range(length):
                path = "/".join(parts[0:length - part]) + "/"
                if self.fs.exists(path):
                    # if the path exists and we can write there, great!
                    if self._is_writable(path):
                        return True
                    # if it exists and we can't =( sad panda
                    else:
                        return False
            # We went through all parts of the path and we still couldn't find
            # one that exists.
            return False