Hi Till, Thanks for sharing pointers related to entropy injection feature on 1.11. We did some investigation and so far it seems like an edge case handling bug.
Testing Environment: flink 1.11.2 release with plugins plugins/s3-fs-hadoop/flink-s3-fs-hadoop state.backend.rocksdb.timer-service.factory rocksdb state.checkpoints.dir s3a://balabala/dev/checkpoints/_entropy_/test state.checkpoints.num-retained 3 s3.entropy.key _entropy_ s3.entropy.length 1 Observation: (v.s 1.9 no entropy marker) checkpoint _metadata path point to directory with entropy marker s3a://balabala/dev/checkpoints/_entropy_/xenon/event-stream-splitter/3bec4b7d4ac5c116649a4f579b87628e/chk-1669 Investigation: add LOG.warn EntropyInjector#removeEntropyMarkerIfPresent build new binary and copy dist jar to dev cluster gateway clifront lib/ folder. rerun same job, found warning logs final EntropyInjectingFileSystem efs = getEntropyFs(fs); return null. adding more logs inside of getEntropyFs found fs passed from removeEntropyMarkerIfPresent is instanceof org.apache.flink.core.fs.PluginFileSystemFactory$ClassLoaderFixingFileSystem so I realized there might be a bug in handling filesystem check, apply a small fix there patch.diff <http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/file/t342/patch.diff> repeat step above, run same job, seems remove entropy marker works s3a://balabala/dev/checkpoints/xenon/event-stream-splitter/26081a69c330522e0b3f4fceb852401e/chk-27 Can we loop in someone to take a look this patch? Chen -- Sent from: http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/