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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-5897: --------------------------------------- Github user uce commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3411#discussion_r103169593 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/checkpoint/CompletedCheckpointStore.java --- @@ -72,4 +72,5 @@ */ int getNumberOfRetainedCheckpoints(); + boolean requiresExternalizedCheckpoints(); --- End diff -- Should we add a short JavaDocs comment? > Untie Checkpoint Externalization from FileSystems > ------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-5897 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5897 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: State Backends, Checkpointing > Affects Versions: 1.2.0 > Reporter: Stephan Ewen > Assignee: Stephan Ewen > Fix For: 1.3.0 > > > Currently, externalizing checkpoint metadata and storing savepoints depends > strictly on FileSystems. > Since state backends are more general, storing and cleaning up checkpoints > with state backend hooks requires to untie savepoints and externalized > checkpoints from filesystems. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)