Thanks for the response. Thats correct, they do not get purged/deleted while the job is running. I have 3 concurrent jobs running and there are 3 directories in the data directory.
/var/data/flink/2375c69006bfeca9644171f31b444dff /var/data/flink/c3264bb6d5e068d6440bbb21069b7d28 /var/data/flink/f81d50eb4644cdf65f8f0513713c9d61 in each one of those folders there is chk-1 all the way to chk-2777 for example I do not have a hdfs, I have the flink task manager on a debian vm -- Sent from: http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/