danny0405 commented on PR #11440: URL: https://github.com/apache/hudi/pull/11440#issuecomment-2204767885
> Whose value will either refer to first savepoint if first savepoint < earliest commit to retain. Does this mean we can not archive beyond any savepoint now? > Last completed clean instant is required in the timeline to fetch earliest commit to not archive. I don't think this is reasonable in high level, there are some scenarios that people will never enable cleaning service, or the cleaning just got stuck and the halt of archival would impact the performance of ingestion. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@hudi.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org