You can do this and it should work fine. You would have to keep adding machines to get disk capacity, of course, since your data set would only grow.
We will keep an open file descriptor per file, but I think that is okay. Just set the segment size to 1GB, then with 10TB of storage that is only 10k files which should be fine. Adjust the OS open FD limit up a bit if needed. File descriptors don't use too much memory so this should not hurt anything. -Jay On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Anthony Grimes <i...@raynes.me> wrote: > Our use case is that we'd like to log data we don't need away and > potentially replay it at some point. We don't want to delete old logs. I > googled around a bit and I only discovered this particular post: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-kafka-users/201210.mbox/%3CCAFbh0Q2=eJcDT6NvTAPtxhXSk64x0Yms-G-AOqOoy=ftvvm...@mail.gmail.com%3E > > In summary, it appears the primary issue is that Kafka keeps file handles of > each log segment open. Is there a way to configure this, or is a way to do > so planned? It appears that an option to deduplicate instead of delete was > added recently, so doesn't the file handle issue exist with that as well > (since files aren't being deleted)?
