Not if the savepoint backend is Filesystem, right? So it shouldnt really be a matter of the statebackend, only the savepoint backend.
Gyula On Fri, May 27, 2016, 18:47 Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > theoretically, it could work (if I'm not missing anything). But the > savepoint would be lost as soon as the JobManager is shut down. > > Cheers, > Aljoscha > > On Fri, 27 May 2016 at 18:09 Gyula Fóra <gyula.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey! > > > > The flink docs on savepoints say that they cannot be used in combination > > with the memory statebackend as the savepoint backend will only store > > pointers to the state. > > > > > > If i understand correctly these pointers are the StateHandles that are > > stored by the JobManager. In case of the Memory state backend the state > is > > stored serialized in the handle so I would assume it should work with > > savepoints as well. > > > > Am I missing something? > > > > Cheers, > > Gyula > > >