Just one word: Windows. I'm not a maintainer, but AFAIK kafka targets Windows as well and isn't chroot is a Unix-specific feature?
2013/11/14 marek <[email protected]> > Hey, > > I'm trying to feel-out if auto creating the broker's registration path > on server start up would be wanted as a code contribution. > > How do the maintainers feel about: > > 1. > Having configurable server parameter: > > auto.create.chroot = true | false > > 2. > If (1) is set to true, the chroot would be create automatically in the > case that the it is missing from zookeeper, and the server would start > up normal. > > If the maintainers are OK with this idea I'll code it up, it would > solve a use case we have at my work, and I would send in a patch or > follow any contribution process given. > > > Right now if you specify zookeeper.connect as: > > host1:port1,host2:port2,host3:port3/chroot/path > > and /chroot/path does not exist in zookeeper, the server does not operate. > > > -Marek >
