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Gwen Shapira commented on KAFKA-1678: ------------------------------------- 1. It just seems like a reasonable thing to support. Managing re-use of brokers can be a headache for admins, especially since we are moving in the direction of auto-generating broker ids (and a lot of places already do that in their automated install scripts. Joe's example of cloud installs was a good use-case too. 2. In the future we'll have security and brokers will need to authenticate with each other in order to get replicas. Losing a broker can mean losing its keys and then adding a new broker that looks just like the old one will be even more painful. > add new options for reassign partition to better manager dead brokers > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-1678 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1678 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Joe Stein > Assignee: Gwen Shapira > Labels: operations > Fix For: 0.8.3 > > > this is in two forms > --replace-replica > which is from broker.id to broker.id > and > --remove-replica > which is just a single broker.id -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)