GitHub user amethystic opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2907
kafka-5118: Improve message for Kafka failed startup with non-Kafka data in data.dirs Explicitly throwing clear exceptions when starting up a Kafka with some non-Kafka data in data.dirs. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/amethystic/kafka kafka-5118_improve_msg__for_failed_startup_with_nonKafka_data Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2907.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #2907 ---- commit 48a60617292439e10d995f6edf2fcab18d4306cb Author: amethystic <huxi...@hotmail.com> Date: 2017-04-25T03:39:55Z kafka-5118: Improve message for Kafka failed startup with non-Kafka data in data.dirs Explicitly throwing clear exceptions when starting up a Kafka with some non-Kafka data in data.dirs. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---