diff --git a/qa/workunits/hadoop/internal-tests.sh b/qa/workunits/hadoop/internal-tests.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 48a9224dac1..00000000000
--- a/qa/workunits/hadoop/internal-tests.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash -e
-
-# bail if $TESTDIR is not set as this test will fail in that scenario
-[ -z $TESTDIR ] && { echo "\$TESTDIR needs to be set, but is not. Exiting."; exit 1; }
-
-# configure CEPH_CONF and LD_LIBRARY_PATH if they're not already set
-conf="$CEPH_CONF"
-if [ -z "$conf" ] ; then
-	echo "Setting conf to /etc/ceph/ceph.conf" 
-	conf="/etc/ceph/ceph.conf"
-else
-	echo "conf is set to $conf"
-fi
-
-ld_lib_path="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
-if [ -z "$ld_lib_path" ] ; then
-	echo "Setting ld_lib_path to /usr/lib/jni"
-	ld_lib_path="/usr/lib/jni"
-else
-	echo "ld_lib_path was set to $ld_lib_path"
-fi
-
-POOL_SIZES=`seq 1 8`
-POOL_BASE=hadoop
-POOL_NAMES=`echo -n $POOL_SIZES | sed "s/\([0-9]*\)/$POOL_BASE\1/g" | sed "s/ /,/g"`
-
-function gen_hadoop_conf() {
-local outfile=$1
-local poolnames=$2
-local conf=$3
-cat << EOF > $outfile
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
-<configuration>
-<property>
-  <name>ceph.conf.file</name>
-  <value>$conf</value>
-</property>
-<property>
-  <name>ceph.data.pools</name>
-  <value>$poolnames</value>
-</property>
-</configuration>
-EOF
-}
-
-echo creating hadoop test pools
-for size in $POOL_SIZES; do
-  name=${POOL_BASE}$size
-  echo creating pool $name
-  ceph osd pool create $name 100 100
-  ceph osd pool set $name size $size
-
-  echo making pool $name a data pool
-  poolid=`ceph osd dump | sed -n "s/^pool \([0-9]*\) '$name'.*/\1/p"`
-  ceph mds add_data_pool $poolid
-done
-
-def_repl_conf=`mktemp`
-echo generating default replication hadoop config $def_repl_conf
-gen_hadoop_conf $def_repl_conf "" $conf
-
-cust_repl_conf=`mktemp`
-echo generating custom replication hadoop config $cust_repl_conf
-gen_hadoop_conf $cust_repl_conf $POOL_NAMES $conf
-
-echo running default replication hadoop tests
-java -Dhadoop.conf.file=$def_repl_conf -Djava.library.path=$ld_lib_path -cp /usr/share/java/junit4.jar:$TESTDIR/apache_hadoop/build/hadoop-core-1.0.4-SNAPSHOT.jar:$TESTDIR/inktank_hadoop/build/hadoop-cephfs.jar:$TESTDIR/inktank_hadoop/build/hadoop-cephfs-test.jar:$TESTDIR/apache_hadoop/build/hadoop-test-1.0.4-SNAPSHOT.jar:$TESTDIR/apache_hadoop/build/ivy/lib/Hadoop/common/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:/usr/share/java/libcephfs.jar org.junit.runner.JUnitCore org.apache.hadoop.fs.ceph.TestCephDefaultReplication 
-
-echo running custom replication hadoop tests
-java -Dhadoop.conf.file=$cust_repl_conf -Djava.library.path=$ld_lib_path -cp /usr/share/java/junit4.jar:$TESTDIR/apache_hadoop/build/hadoop-core-1.0.4-SNAPSHOT.jar:$TESTDIR/inktank_hadoop/build/hadoop-cephfs.jar:$TESTDIR/inktank_hadoop/build/hadoop-cephfs-test.jar:$TESTDIR/apache_hadoop/build/hadoop-test-1.0.4-SNAPSHOT.jar:$TESTDIR/apache_hadoop/build/ivy/lib/Hadoop/common/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:/usr/share/java/libcephfs.jar org.junit.runner.JUnitCore org.apache.hadoop.fs.ceph.TestCephCustomReplication 
-
-echo "completed hadoop-internal-tests tests"
-exit 0
diff --git a/qa/workunits/hadoop/repl.sh b/qa/workunits/hadoop/repl.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..2284cce0003
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qa/workunits/hadoop/repl.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+set -x
+
+# bail if $TESTDIR is not set as this test will fail in that scenario
+[ -z $TESTDIR ] && { echo "\$TESTDIR needs to be set, but is not. Exiting."; exit 1; }
+
+# if HADOOP_PREFIX is not set, use default
+[ -z $HADOOP_PREFIX ] && { HADOOP_PREFIX=$TESTDIR/hadoop; }
+
+export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java
+
+# create pools with different replication factors
+for repl in 2 3 7 8 9; do
+  name=hadoop.$repl
+  ceph osd pool create $name 8 8
+  ceph osd pool set $name size $repl
+
+  id=`ceph osd dump | sed -n "s/^pool \([0-9]*\) '$name'.*/\1/p"`
+  ceph mds add_data_pool $id
+done
+
+# create a file in each of the pools
+for repl in 2 3 7 8 9; do
+  name=hadoop.$repl
+  $HADOOP_PREFIX/bin/hadoop fs -rm -f /$name.dat
+  dd if=/dev/zero bs=1048576 count=1 | \
+    $HADOOP_PREFIX/bin/hadoop fs -Dceph.data.pools="$name" \
+    -put - /$name.dat
+done
+
+# check that hadoop reports replication matching
+# that of the pool the file was written into
+for repl in 2 3 7 8 9; do
+  name=hadoop.$repl
+  repl2=$($HADOOP_PREFIX/bin/hadoop fs -ls /$name.dat | awk '{print $2}')
+  if [ $repl -ne $repl2 ]; then
+    echo "replication factors didn't match!"
+    exit 1
+  fi
+done
+
+exit 0