[FLINK-5897] Untie Checkpoint Externalization from FileSystems

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: Runtime / State Backends
• Assignee: Stephan Ewen
• Reporter: Stephan Ewen
• Created: 23/Feb/17 16:52
• Updated: 28/Feb/17 19:01
• Resolved: 28/Feb/17 18:38

Description

Currently, externalizing checkpoint metadata and storing savepoints depends strictly on FileSystems.

Since state backends are more general, storing and cleaning up checkpoints with state backend hooks requires to untie savepoints and externalized checkpoints from filesystems.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3411