That's more or less the definition of a checkpoint. Sent from my iPhone
> On May 19, 2014, at 7:58 PM, witgo <g...@git.apache.org> wrote: > > Github user witgo commented on the pull request: > > https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/828#issuecomment-43581755 > > @mateiz Why the checkpoint data must be written to the file system?. > > > > --- > If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your > reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature > enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please > contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket > with INFRA. > ---