In 0.8, you can create topics manually and explicitly specify the replica to broker mapping. Post 0.8, we can think of some more automated ways to deal with this (e.g., let each broker carry some kind of weight).
Thanks, Jun On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Jason Rosenberg <j...@squareup.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if there's a good way to have a heterogenous kafka cluster > (specifically, if we have nodes with different sized disks). So, we might > want a larger node to receive more messages than a smaller node, etc. > > I expect there's something we can do with using a partitioner that has > specific knowledge about the hosts in the cluster, but this feels messy, to > have this config on every producer client.... > > Thoughts? > > Jason >
