diff --git a/br/pkg/lightning/backend/local/local.go b/br/pkg/lightning/backend/local/local.go
index 1e3f4b7519ae0..d7714b3da54d2 100644
--- a/br/pkg/lightning/backend/local/local.go
+++ b/br/pkg/lightning/backend/local/local.go
@@ -605,6 +605,7 @@ func NewBackend(
 	}
 
 	if shouldCreate {
+		log.FromContext(ctx).Warn("[issue58437] NewBackend Mkdir", zap.String("config.LocalStoreDir", config.LocalStoreDir))
 		err = os.Mkdir(config.LocalStoreDir, 0o700)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, common.ErrInvalidSortedKVDir.Wrap(err).GenWithStackByArgs(config.LocalStoreDir)
@@ -848,7 +849,9 @@ func (local *Backend) Close() {
 		// If checkpoint is disabled, or we don't detect any duplicate, then this duplicate
 		// db dir will be useless, so we clean up this dir.
 		if allIsWell && (!local.CheckpointEnabled || !hasDuplicates) {
-			if err := os.RemoveAll(filepath.Join(local.LocalStoreDir, duplicateDBName)); err != nil {
+			p := filepath.Join(local.LocalStoreDir, duplicateDBName)
+			local.logger.Warn("[issue58437] Close RemoveAll", zap.String("path", p))
+			if err := os.RemoveAll(p); err != nil {
 				local.logger.Warn("remove duplicate db file failed", zap.Error(err))
 			}
 		}
@@ -858,6 +861,7 @@ func (local *Backend) Close() {
 	// if checkpoint is disable or we finish load all data successfully, then files in this
 	// dir will be useless, so we clean up this dir and all files in it.
 	if !local.CheckpointEnabled || common.IsEmptyDir(local.LocalStoreDir) {
+		local.logger.Warn("[issue58437] Close RemoveAll", zap.String("local.LocalStoreDir", local.LocalStoreDir))
 		err := os.RemoveAll(local.LocalStoreDir)
 		if err != nil {
 			local.logger.Warn("remove local db file failed", zap.Error(err))
@@ -950,11 +954,13 @@ func (local *Backend) OpenEngine(ctx context.Context, cfg *backend.EngineConfig,
 
 	sstDir := engineSSTDir(local.LocalStoreDir, engineUUID)
 	if !cfg.KeepSortDir {
+		log.FromContext(ctx).Warn("[issue58437] OpenEngine RemoveAll", zap.String("sstDir", sstDir))
 		if err := os.RemoveAll(sstDir); err != nil {
 			return errors.Trace(err)
 		}
 	}
 	if !common.IsDirExists(sstDir) {
+		log.FromContext(ctx).Warn("[issue58437] OpenEngine Mkdir", zap.String("sstDir", sstDir))
 		if err := os.Mkdir(sstDir, 0o750); err != nil {
 			return errors.Trace(err)
 		}
@@ -1821,6 +1827,7 @@ func (local *Backend) ResetEngine(ctx context.Context, engineUUID uuid.UUID) err
 	if err := localEngine.Close(); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+	log.FromContext(ctx).Warn("[issue58437] ResetEngine Cleanup", zap.String("local.LocalStoreDir", local.LocalStoreDir))
 	if err := localEngine.Cleanup(local.LocalStoreDir); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -1829,6 +1836,7 @@ func (local *Backend) ResetEngine(ctx context.Context, engineUUID uuid.UUID) err
 		localEngine.db.Store(db)
 		localEngine.engineMeta = engineMeta{}
 		if !common.IsDirExists(localEngine.sstDir) {
+			log.FromContext(ctx).Warn("[issue58437] ResetEngine Mkdir", zap.String("sstDir", localEngine.sstDir))
 			if err := os.Mkdir(localEngine.sstDir, 0o750); err != nil {
 				return errors.Trace(err)
 			}
@@ -1867,6 +1875,7 @@ func (local *Backend) CleanupEngine(ctx context.Context, engineUUID uuid.UUID) e
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+	log.FromContext(ctx).Warn("[issue58437] CleanupEngine", zap.Stringer("uuid", engineUUID))
 	err = localEngine.Cleanup(local.LocalStoreDir)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
diff --git a/pkg/ddl/index.go b/pkg/ddl/index.go
index 3498701fb041c..bfedddc1a482e 100644
--- a/pkg/ddl/index.go
+++ b/pkg/ddl/index.go
@@ -827,6 +827,7 @@ func loadCloudStorageURI(w *worker, job *model.Job) {
 // there maybe some stale files in the sort path if TiDB is killed during the backfill process.
 func cleanupSortPath(ctx context.Context, currentJobID int64) error {
 	sortPath := ingest.ConfigSortPath()
+	logutil.BgLogger().Warn("[issue58437] cleanupSortPath()", zap.Int64("currentJobID", currentJobID))
 	err := os.MkdirAll(sortPath, 0700)
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Trace(err)
@@ -853,7 +854,7 @@ func cleanupSortPath(ctx context.Context, currentJobID int64) error {
 		}
 		// Remove all the temp data of the previous done jobs.
 		if jobID < currentJobID {
-			logutil.Logger(ctx).Info("remove stale temp index data",
+			logutil.Logger(ctx).Info("[issue58437] remove stale temp index data",
 				zap.Int64("jobID", jobID), zap.Int64("currentJobID", currentJobID))
 			err := os.RemoveAll(filepath.Join(sortPath, entry.Name()))
 			if err != nil {
diff --git a/pkg/ddl/ingest/disk_root.go b/pkg/ddl/ingest/disk_root.go
index 9fe565b381aca..bfddc89ea18cf 100644
--- a/pkg/ddl/ingest/disk_root.go
+++ b/pkg/ddl/ingest/disk_root.go
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ func (d *diskRootImpl) PreCheckUsage() error {
 	failpoint.Inject("mockIngestCheckEnvFailed", func(_ failpoint.Value) {
 		failpoint.Return(dbterror.ErrIngestCheckEnvFailed.FastGenByArgs("mock error"))
 	})
+	logutil.BgLogger().Warn("[issue58437] diskRootImpl PreCheckUsage()")
 	err := os.MkdirAll(d.path, 0700)
 	if err != nil {
 		return dbterror.ErrIngestCheckEnvFailed.FastGenByArgs(err.Error())
diff --git a/pkg/ddl/ingest/env.go b/pkg/ddl/ingest/env.go
index 5a37a598f6109..9eb4f734abe1a 100644
--- a/pkg/ddl/ingest/env.go
+++ b/pkg/ddl/ingest/env.go
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ func genLightningDataDir() (string, error) {
 			return "", err
 		}
 	}
+	logutil.BgLogger().Warn("[issue58437] genLightningDataDir()")
 	err := os.MkdirAll(sortPath, 0o700)
 	if err != nil {
 		logutil.BgLogger().Error(LitErrCreateDirFail,