THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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This is a follow up on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-193%3A+Snapshots+ownership on which this is heavily relaying relying on and as such please check FLIP-193 before for the require context
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Canonical format non-incremental savepoints are often prohibitively slow to use for jobs with a larger state. Requirement for a savepoint to use canonical format makes it slow to take and slow to recover from, as all of the state needs to be rewritten to/from the canonical format. Furthermore, this limitation prevents the use of incremental RocksDB snapshots as savepoints, which makes taking savepoints even slower.
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