Letting each broker have a weight sounds like a great idea.

Since in my use case, topics are generally auto-created, it won't be
practical to map brokers manually per topic.

Thanks,

Jason


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>

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