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Guozhang Wang commented on KAFKA-763: ------------------------------------- Just a quick question: what is an "unclean leader election"? > Add an option to replica from the largest offset during unclean leader > election > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-763 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-763 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: core > Affects Versions: 0.8 > Reporter: Jun Rao > Assignee: Jun Rao > Priority: Blocker > Attachments: kafka-763_v1.patch > > > If there is an unclean leader election, a follower may have an offset out of > the range of the leader. Currently, the follower will delete all its data and > refetch from the smallest offset of the leader. It would be useful to add an > option to let the follower refetch from the largest offset of the leader > since refetching from the smallest offset may take some time. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira