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Guozhang Wang commented on KAFKA-8970: -------------------------------------- Hi Nishkam, which Kafka version are you using? There are a couple of known race condition issues that have been fixed lately, especially KAFKA-5998. As for the line you pointed it out, creating a File object should be fine, and `mkdirs()` is essentially an atomic operation. If you are on latest version and sees this problem, could you upload the whole stack trace? > StateDirectory creation fails with Exception > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-8970 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8970 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Nishkam Ravi > Priority: Major > > When two threads try to create KafkaStreams simultaneously, one of them > succeeds while the other fails with the following exception: > org.apache.kafka.streams.errors.StreamsException: > org.apache.kafka.streams.errors.ProcessorStateException: base state directory > [/tmp/kafka-streams] doesn't exist and couldn't be created > Quick investigation suggests that this is because the code at/around: > [https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/streams/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/streams/processor/internals/StateDirectory.java#L82] > is not synchronized and can lead to race conditions. > Specifying different values for state.dir can be a workaround for this issue > but a bit cumbersome. Can we just make this synchronized? -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)