The Flink documentation says that we need to specify the filesystem type (file://, hdfs://) when configuring the rocksdb backend dir.
https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.5/ops/state/state_backends.html#the-rocksdbstatebackend But when I do this, I get an error on job submission saying that relative paths are not permitted in the rocksdb stand backend. I am submitting the job via flink cli (bin/flink run). Also, even though I give a local file system path "file:///home/abc/share", it is a shared GlusterFS volume mount, so it will be accessible by the JobManager and all TaskManagers. I removed the filesystem type from the rocksdb backend dir configuration, and though the job got submitted, the rocksdb checkpoint directory was not created. I have enabled checkpointing in my Flink application. I am using Flink 1.5.0. Any help or pointers would be appreciated.
