[FLINK-5788] Document assumptions about File Systems and persistence

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Assignee: Stephan Ewen
• Reporter: Stephan Ewen
• Created: 13/Feb/17 19:57
• Updated: 14/Feb/17 14:51
• Resolved: 14/Feb/17 14:51

Description

We should add some description about the assumptions we make for the behavior of FileSystem implementations to support proper checkpointing and recovery operations.

This is especially critical for file systems like S3 with a somewhat tricky contract.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3301