Yes, this seems unexpected. Do you see an error on list-topics or does it return nothing? Also, could you file a JIRA for us to look into?
Thanks, Neha On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Priya Matpadi <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I have been playing with kafka producer and consumer. I have created > different topics at different times with different replica and partition > options. > > After 7 days of un-use, list-topics script does not list the unused topic. > However, I can see the log and index files for such topic partitions still > exist on the file system. > > If I publish to such a topic, since auto.create.topics.enable=true, a new > topic is created with default partition=1 since num.partitions=1 and no > replication. > This seems like a bug to me. I expect the the old messages may be purged as > per property setting for log retention, however the topic should still > exist and remember its original configuration for # of partitions and > replication. How does it work behind the scenes? > > Thanks, > Priya >
