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Ismael Juma commented on KAFKA-2988: ------------------------------------ We should also consider backporting this to the 0.9.0 branch given the impact of not enabling this: * Disk space issue as described in KAFKA-3000 * When a coordinator fails, the new coordinator has to read the entire log to get up to date (as pointed out by [~hachikuji] > Change default configuration of the log cleaner > ----------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-2988 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2988 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 0.9.0.0 > Reporter: Grant Henke > Assignee: Grant Henke > > Since 0.9.0 the internal "__consumer_offsets" topic is being used more > heavily. Because this is a compacted topic "log.cleaner.enable" needs to be > "true" in order for it to be compacted. > Since this is critical for core Kafka functionality we should change the > default to true and potentially consider removing the option to disable all > together. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)