Per the documentation: "The meta data file of a Savepoint contains (primarily) pointers to all files on stable storage that are part of the Savepoint, in form of absolute paths."
I somehow have a _metadata file that's 1.9GB. Running *strings *on it I find 962 strings, most of which look like HDFS paths, which leaves a lot of that file-size unexplained. What else is in there, and how exactly could this be happening? We're running 1.6. Jacob