Looking at the release notes here
https://docs.dremio.com/software/release-notes/210-release/
is this nugget…
### 2. PDFS is not supported for distributed storage in versions 21.0.0 and above.
Additionally, with this change, the Helm chart no longer supports using the “local” distributed storage option.
What does this mean?
For example my configuration for a single EC2 instance reads…
the distributed path Dremio data including job results, downloads, uploads, etc
dist: “dremioS3:///xxx/dremio/pdfs”
Is this now not possible?
@spireite You are fine. All this means is that Dremio no longer supports storing of reflections in local disk and has to be on a distributed storage like S3
What confused me is in particular is that the text says
PDFS is not supported for distributed storage in versions 21.0.0 and above.
yet S3 is distributed storage.
Presumbly when your docs should say either
PDFS is not supported for local storage in versions 21.0.0 and above.
or
PDFS is only supported for distributed storage in versions 21.0.0 and above.
@spireite PDFS is only local storage and distributed storage is S3/Azure/GCS/HDFS