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Bill Warshaw commented on KAFKA-3178:
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[~vahid] fyi this ticket may end up closing; we are exploring using the message
timestamp functionality from KIP-32 to implement a timestamp-based deletion
policy, which will effectively do the same thing as this proposal, and be
simpler to implement
> Expose a method in AdminUtils to manually truncate a specific partition to a
> particular offset
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> Key: KAFKA-3178
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3178
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Bill Warshaw
> Assignee: Vahid Hashemian
> Labels: kafka
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> h3. Description
> One of Kafka's officially-described use cases is a distributed commit log
> (http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#uses_commitlog). In this case,
> for a distributed service that needed a commit log, there would be a topic
> with a single partition to guarantee log order. This service would use the
> commit log to re-sync failed nodes. Kafka is generally an excellent fit for
> such a system, but it does not expose an adequate mechanism for log cleanup
> in such a case. The built-in log cleanup mechanisms are based on time / size
> thresholds, which doesn't work well with a commit log; data can only be
> deleted from a commit log when the client application determines that it is
> no longer needed. Here we propose a new API exposed to clients through
> AdminUtils that will delete all messages before a certain offset from a
> specific partition.
> h3. Rejected Alternatives
> - Manually setting / resetting time intervals for log retention configs to
> periodically flush messages from the logs from before a certain time period.
> Doing this involves several asynchronous processes, none of which provide any
> hooks to know when they are actually complete.
> - Rolling a new topic each time we want to cleanup the log. This is the best
> existing approach, but is not ideal. All incoming writes would be paused
> while waiting for a new topic to be created.
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