GitHub user dguy opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4239
KAFKA-6214: enable use of in-memory store for standby tasks Remove the flag in `ProcessorStateManager` that checks if a store is persistent when registering it as a standby task. Updated the smoke test to use an in-memory store. ### Committer Checklist (excluded from commit message) - [ ] Verify design and implementation - [ ] Verify test coverage and CI build status - [ ] Verify documentation (including upgrade notes) You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/dguy/kafka kafka-6214 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4239.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 #4239 ---- commit a9cc7b3bbf2bc42462d0876c6c13fdc8173f47ec Author: Damian Guy <damian....@gmail.com> Date: 2017-11-20T13:30:35Z enable use of in-memory store for standby tasks ---- ---