Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1153#discussion_r41147873
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flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/checkpoint/ZooKeeperCheckpointIDCounter.java
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+package org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint;
+
+import org.apache.curator.framework.CuratorFramework;
+import org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.shared.SharedCount;
+import org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.shared.VersionedValue;
+import org.apache.curator.framework.state.ConnectionState;
+import org.apache.curator.framework.state.ConnectionStateListener;
+import org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmanager.RecoveryMode;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
+
+/**
+ * {@link CheckpointIDCounter} instances for JobManagers running in {@link
RecoveryMode#ZOOKEEPER}.
+ *
+ * <p>Each counter creates a ZNode:
+ * <pre>
+ * +----O /flink/checkpoint-counter/<job-id> 1 [persistent]
+ * .
+ * .
+ * .
+ * +----O /flink/checkpoint-counter/<job-id> N [persistent]
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * <p>The checkpoints IDs are required to be ascending (per job). In order
to guarantee this in case
+ * of job manager failures we use ZooKeeper to have a shared counter
across job manager instances.
+ */
+public class ZooKeeperCheckpointIDCounter implements CheckpointIDCounter {
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I'm not so sure whether we really need such a shared counter. If I've
understood it correctly, then the completed checkpoints use the counter value
as their node names, right? We have this counter because we need an ascending
ID to distinguish old from new checkpoints. But isn't this exactly, what
ZooKeeper's `PERSISTENT_SEQUENTIAL` mode would offer us for free? It will
simply extract the current `cversion` of the parent, increment it and append it
to the given node name. I think that we could save some complexity here.
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