Thanks Rao. I found both log.dir and log.dirs worked. When I start up all my brokers, I see below log message on the console of broker 1: What does that mean? Partition leader or not?
[2013-09-12 13:10:54,570] INFO New leader is 1 (kafka.server.ZookeeperLeaderElector$LeaderChangeListener) On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. You can put multiple directories, each on a separate volume, in > log.dirs. > > 2. Yes, our replica assignment logic will try to spread the partitions and > the leaders evenly among the brokers. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Lu Xuechao <lux...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Team, > > > > I have some questions regarding Kafka partitions: > > > > 1. Based on my understanding, the partitions of the same broker have > > contention on disk IO. Say If I have 10 hard drives, can I specify all > the > > partitions spread evenly on those drives? > > > > 2. If I configure default.replication.factor=2, then for each partition > > there will be one leader and one follower, right? Say if I have 10 nodes > > with a broker on each node, I want to partition 10 way then can each of > the > > 10 broker instances be a leader for 1 partition and a follower for 1 or > > more partitions based on the replication factor? > > > > thanks, > > >
