Harsha, Thanks for reply. So what if the zookeeper cluster fails? Will the topics information be lost? What fault-tolerant mechanism does zookeeper offer?
best, On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Harsha <ka...@harsha.io> wrote: > Yuheng, > kafka keeps cluster metadata in zookeeper along with topic > metadata as well. You can use zookeeper-shell.sh or zkCli.sh to check zk > nodes, /brokers/topics will give you the list of topics . > > -- > Harsha > > > On March 9, 2015 at 8:20:59 AM, Yuheng Du (yuheng.du.h...@gmail.com) > wrote: > > I am wondering where does kafka cluster keep the topic metadata (name, > partition, replication, etc)? How does a server recover the topic's > metadata and messages after restart and what data will be lost? > > Thanks for anyone to answer my questions. > > best, > Yuheng > >
