> > kafka-add-partitions.sh is in 0.8 but not in 0.8-beta1. Therefore we cannot > use this tool with > 0.8-beta1. If I download latest 0.8 and compile it, can I use its > kafka-add-partitions.sh to add > partitions for the topics that already exist in our 0.8-beta1 kafka? Thanks.
Unfortunately, no - since there were changes in the controller (broker) to support this. So you will need to upgrade to 0.8 before you can do this. Thanks, Joel