Hi Jay, I'm planning to test run Kafka on Windows in our test environments evaluating if it's suitable for production usage.
I can provide feedback with the patch how well it works and if we encounter any functional or perf problems. Tim On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Elizabeth and I have a patch to support our memory mapped offset index > files properly on Windows: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1008 > > Question: Do we want this on 0.8 or trunk? I would feel more comfortable > with it in trunk, but that means windows support in 0.8 is known to be > broken (as opposed to "not known to be broken but not known to be working > either" since we are not doing aggressive system testing on windows). > > I would feel more comfortable doing the patch on 0.8 if there was someone > who would be willing to take on real load testing and/or production > operation on Windows so we could have some confidence that Kafka on Windows > actually works, otherwise this could just be the tip of the iceberg. > > Also it would be great to get review on that patch regardless of the > destination. > > -Jay >
