[jira] [Commented] (FLINK-6505) Proactively cleanup local FS for RocksDBKeyedStateBackend on startup

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-6505:
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Github user bowenli86 commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4798
  
    Hi @StefanRRichter , do you have more feedbacks?


> Proactively cleanup local FS for RocksDBKeyedStateBackend on startup
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-6505
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6505
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: State Backends, Checkpointing
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.0
>            Reporter: Stefan Richter
>            Assignee: Bowen Li
>             Fix For: 1.4.0
>
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> In {{RocksDBKeyedStateBackend}}, the {{instanceBasePath}} is cleared on {{dispose()}}. I think it might make sense to also clear this directory when the backend is created, in case something crashed and the backend never reached {{dispose()}}. At least for previous runs of the same job, we can know what to delete on restart. 
> In general, it is very important for this backend to clean up the local FS, because the local quota might be very limited compared to the DFS. And a node that runs out of local disk space can bring down the whole job, with no way to recover (it might always get rescheduled to that node).



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