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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-6782:
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Github user alpinegizmo commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4024#discussion_r119358154
--- Diff: docs/setup/savepoints.md ---
@@ -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.
--- End diff --
Up to Flink 1.2, this was a more tedious task which was performed with the
savepoint tool.
> Update savepoint documentation
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>
> Key: FLINK-6782
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6782
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: Documentation, State Backends, Checkpointing
> Affects Versions: 1.3.0
> Reporter: Nico Kruber
> Assignee: Nico Kruber
> Fix For: 1.3.0
>
>
> Savepoint documentation is a bit outdated regarding full data being stored in
> the savepoint path, not just a metadata file
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