On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Partition movement is not an automatic operation in Kafka yet. You need to > use the partition reassignment tool - > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Replication+tools#Replicationtools-6.ReassignPartitionsTool > . > > > Also, that feature is stable in 0.8.1. > > What's the best way to try out 0.8.1? I have a git clone from git://git.apache.org/kafka.git but none of the branches or tags imply 0.8.1 Is it just HEAD from trunk? > Thanks, > Neha > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Robert Turner <rob...@bigfoot.com> wrote: > > > No the 6 partitions for each topic will remain on the original brokers. > You > > could either reassign some partitions from all topics to the new brokers > or > > you could add partitions to the new brokers for each topic. In 0.8.0 > there > > is now an add-partitions tool. > > > > Cheers > > Rob Turner. > > > > > > On 13 December 2013 14:42, Yu, Libo <libo...@citi.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > There are three brokers running 0.8-beta1 in our cluster currently. > > Assume > > > all the topics have six partitions. > > > I am going to add another three brokers to the cluster and upgrade all > of > > > them to 0.8. My question is after > > > the cluster is up, will the partition be evenly distributed to all > > > brokers? Thanks. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Libo > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Cheers > > Rob. > > >
