num.partitions is used when topics are auto-created by the brokers, not by CreateTopicCommand.
Thanks, Jun On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Chris Curtin <curtin.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I saw Neha's comment in the JIRA and I understand it. > > However, it occurred to me after reading it that there might be a second > issue. When I created the topics and didn't define a partition count, it > created only one partition. However in my server.properties file I've set > 'num.partitions' to 5. > > Shouldn't this have caused the new topic to have 5 partitions by default? > > A quick look at the code for CreateTopicCommand.scala shows the option > being defaulted to 1. If the only way to create topics is via that command, > what is the 'num.partitions' used for? > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Chris Curtin <curtin.ch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I was able to reproduce today after upgrading to HEAD (as of 3/4/2013) > > > > JIRA: > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-784 > > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Chris Curtin <curtin.ch...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> Hi Jun, > >> > >> Couldn't make either happen again with a clean start (removed all Kafka > >> and Zookeeper configuration and data files). > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Chris > >> > >> > >> > >>> > >> > > >