[FLINK-12378] Consolidate FileSystem Documentation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.1, 1.9.0
• Component/s: Documentation, FileSystems
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Seth Wiesman
• Reporter: Seth Wiesman
• Created: 30/Apr/19 21:39
• Updated: 24/May/19 08:11
• Resolved: 24/May/19 08:11

Description

Currently flink's filesystem documentation is spread across a number of pages without any clear connection. A non-exhaustive list of issues includes:

• S3 documentation spread across many pages
• OSS filesystem is listed under deployments when it is an object store
• deployments/filesystem.md has a lot of unrelated information

We should create a filesystem subsection under deployments with multiple pages containing all relevant information about Flink's filesystem abstraction.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8326