Hi Zakelly,

Thanks for driving the discussion. It makes sense to remove  LEGACY mode in
Flink 2.0.

Best,
Jinzhong Li

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 10:34 AM Xuannan Su <suxuanna...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Zakelly,
>
> Thanks for driving this. +1 to removing the LEGACY mode.
>
> Best regards,
> Xuannan
>
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 3:22 AM Danny Cranmer <dannycran...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > +1 to removing LEGACY mode in Flink 2.0. Thanks for driving.
> >
> > Danny,
> >
> > On Sat, 13 Jan 2024, 08:20 Yanfei Lei, <fredia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Zakelly for starting this discussion.
> > >
> > > Regardless of whether it is for users or developers, deprecating
> > > RestoreMode#LEGACY makes the semantics clearer and lower maintenance
> > > costs, and Flink 2.0 is a good time point to do this.
> > > So +1 for the overall idea.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Yanfei
> > >
> > > Zakelly Lan <zakelly....@gmail.com> 于2024年1月11日周四 14:57写道:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi devs,
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to start a discussion on FLIP-416: Deprecate and remove the
> > > > RestoreMode#LEGACY[1].
> > > >
> > > > The FLIP-193[2] introduced two modes of state file ownership during
> > > > checkpoint restoration: RestoreMode#CLAIM and RestoreMode#NO_CLAIM.
> The
> > > > LEGACY mode, which was how Flink worked until 1.15, has been
> superseded
> > > by
> > > > NO_CLAIM as the default mode. The main drawback of LEGACY mode is
> that
> > > the
> > > > new job relies on artifacts from the old job without cleaning them
> up,
> > > > leaving users uncertain about when it is safe to delete the old
> > > checkpoint
> > > > directories. This leads to the accumulation of unnecessary checkpoint
> > > files
> > > > that are never cleaned up. Considering cluster availability and job
> > > > maintenance, it is not recommended to use LEGACY mode. Users could
> choose
> > > > the other two modes to get a clear semantic for the state file
> ownership.
> > > >
> > > > This FLIP proposes to deprecate the LEGACY mode and remove it
> completely
> > > in
> > > > the upcoming Flink 2.0. This will make the semantic clear as well as
> > > > eliminate many bugs caused by mode transitions involving LEGACY mode
> > > (e.g.
> > > > FLINK-27114 [3]) and enhance code maintainability.
> > > >
> > > > Looking forward to hearing from you!
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/ookkEQ
> > > > [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/bIyqCw
> > > > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-27114
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Zakelly
> > >
>

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