Github user alpinegizmo commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4024#discussion_r119358154
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@@ -129,11 +144,11 @@ $ bin/flink savepoint -d :savepointPath
This disposes the savepoint stored in `:savepointPath`.
-Note that since savepoints always go to a file system it is possible to
also manually delete the savepoint via a regular file system operation. Keep in
mind though that the savepoint only stores meta data that points to the actual
checkpoint data. Therefore, if you manually want to delete a savepoint, you
would have to include the checkpoint files as well. Since there is currently no
straight forward way to figure out how a savepoint maps to a checkpoint, it is
recommended to use the savepoint tool for this as described above.
+Note that since savepoints always go to a file system it is possible to
also manually delete the savepoint via a regular file system operation. Up to
Flink 1.2, this way a more tedious task which was solved with this tool.
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Up to Flink 1.2, this was a more tedious task which was performed with the
savepoint tool.
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