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Till Rohrmann commented on FLINK-5214: -------------------------------------- Hi [~xiaogang.shi], you're right that in case of a TM crash there might be orphaned checkpoint files left which are not properly cleaned up. I think what you describe in FLINK-5086 could be a viable solution to the problem. This is actually the follow up to this issue which covers the case of a recoverable exception. > Clean up checkpoint files when failing checkpoint operation on TM > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-5214 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5214 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Bug > Components: TaskManager > Affects Versions: 1.2.0, 1.1.3 > Reporter: Till Rohrmann > Assignee: Till Rohrmann > Fix For: 1.2.0, 1.1.4 > > > When the {{StreamTask#performCheckpoint}} operation fails on a > {{TaskManager}} potentially created checkpoint files are not cleaned up. This > should be changed. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)