Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6284#discussion_r202087570 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/clusterframework/BootstrapTools.java --- @@ -250,6 +250,10 @@ public static Configuration generateTaskManagerConfiguration( cfg.setInteger(TaskManagerOptions.NUM_TASK_SLOTS, numSlots); } + if (!baseConfig.containsKey(CoreOptions.TMP_DIRS_OVERRIDDEN)){ + cfg.setString(CoreOptions.TMP_DIRS, ""); // HACK: emulate removal for the given key + } --- End diff -- I would suggest to add a `BootstratpTools#cloneConfiguration(Configuration)` method which clones the given `Configuration` and resets all node specific fields. One of these fields is `CoreOptions#TMP_DIRS`. This means if `USE_LOCAL_DEFAULT_TMP_DIRS` is true, then we clear the `TMP_DIRS` option. We actually need for that a `Configuration#clear(ConfigOption)` method which removes the option entry from `Configuration#confData`. Otherwise we might risk that we don't use the TMP_DIRS default value but instead `""` if there are no local default tmp dirs.
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