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Umesh Chaudhary commented on KAFKA-5114: ---------------------------------------- IMHO, it has a co-relation with the previous statement: *The partitions in the log serve several purposes...*. So we described the log as data of the topic and partitions of the logs would be partitions of the topic's data. > Clarify meaning of logs in Introduction: Topics and Logs > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-5114 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5114 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: documentation > Reporter: Michael Ernest > Priority: Minor > > The term log is ambiguous in this section: > * To describe a partition as a 'structured commit log' > * To describe a topic as a partitioned log > Then there's this sentence under Distribution: "The partitions of the log are > distributed over the servers in the Kafka cluster with each server handling > data and requests for a share of the partitions" > In that last sentence, replacing 'log' with 'topic' would be clearer. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)