+1 I actually thought we had already dropped this FS. If anyone is still relying on it in production, the file system abstraction in Flink has been incredibly stable over the years. They should be able to use the 1.14 MapR FS with later versions of Flink.
Seth On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 10:03 AM Martijn Visser <mart...@ververica.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Flink supports multiple file systems [1] which includes MapR FS. MapR as a > company doesn't exist anymore since 2019, the technology and intellectual > property has been sold to Hewlett Packard. > > I don't think that there's anyone who's using MapR anymore and therefore I > think it would be good to deprecate this for Flink 1.15 and then remove it > in Flink 1.16. Removing this from Flink will slightly shrink the codebase > and CI runtime. > > I'm also cross posting this to the User mailing list, in case there's > still anyone who's using MapR. > > Best regards, > > Martijn > > [1] > https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-stable/docs/deployment/filesystems/overview/ >
