As Ewen suggests, you might want to take a look at KIP-6. The only thing to
be
careful about is not moving data for partitions other than those belonging
to the topics
whose replication factor is being changed by the tool.
It seems logical to expose this via the kafka-topics --alter option.
Thank
Geoff,
First, if you haven't already, take a look at
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-6+-+New+reassignment+partition+logic+for+rebalancing
and the associated JIRA.
My opinion is that we shouldn't do anything to the existing partitions --
it would probably violate the principl
Hi dev list, I have a few questions regarding KAFKA-1313 (
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1313)
It is currently possible albeit in a kindof hacky way to increase
replication factor on a topic by using the partition reassignment tool with
a hand-crafted reassignment plan.
The preferre
