Github user StephanEwen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5928#discussion_r185737131 --- Diff: docs/ops/state/state_backends.md --- @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ Possible values for the config entry are *jobmanager* (MemoryStateBackend), *fil name of the class that implements the state backend factory [FsStateBackendFactory](https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/state/filesystem/FsStateBackendFactory.java), such as `org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBStateBackendFactory` for RocksDBStateBackend. -In the case where the default state backend is set to *filesystem*, the entry `state.backend.fs.checkpointdir` defines the directory where the checkpoint data will be stored. +In the case where the default state backend is set to *filesystem*, the entry `state.checkpoints.dir` defines the directory where the checkpoint data will be stored. --- End diff -- The option is used by all backends that eventually store data to file system, including RocksDBStateBackend and MemoryStateBackend (the MemoryStateBackend writes its single checkpoint metadata file there, optionally)
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