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Flink Jira Bot commented on FLINK-5730: --------------------------------------- This major issue is unassigned and itself and all of its Sub-Tasks have not been updated for 30 days. So, it has been labeled "stale-major". If this ticket is indeed "major", please either assign yourself or give an update. Afterwards, please remove the label. In 7 days the issue will be deprioritized. > Users can concurrently modify state metadata of RocksDB asynchronous snapshots > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: FLINK-5730 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5730 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Runtime / State Backends > Reporter: Stefan Richter > Priority: Major > Labels: stale-major > > The current implementation of asynchronous snapshots in RocksDB iterates the > original state metadata structures as part of the asynchronous snapshot. > Users could potentially modify the state metadata concurrently (e.g. by > registering a new state while the snapshot is running), thereby corrupting > the metadata. > For the way most users are registering their states (at the start of the > task), this is not a problem. However, if state is conditionally registered > at some later point in time this can be problematic. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)