Hi Neha, In context of the same mail thread that you have already answered,I just want to clear one more doubt:
If I am making a cluster with two brokers and a topic with 3 partitions and two replicas,then can leader = -1 come here in any case? On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Monika Garg <gargmon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Neha. > > > > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> You have picked replication factor of 1, so when you bring down the only >> replica which can be the leader, it cannot be moved elsewhere. So we set >> it >> to -1. >> >> Thanks, >> Neha >> On Oct 22, 2013 12:21 AM, "Monika Garg" <gargmon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi >> > >> > I have made 2 nodes kafka cluster and created a topic with 3 partitions >> and >> > 1 replica. >> > >> > the partitions got distributed among 2 brokers. >> > >> > then one of my broker(broker1) goes down and due to this the >> > partition(partition2) for which broker1 was acting as a leader,now >> showing >> > me the leader value as -1 by the kafka-list-topic-command. >> > >> > Any clue for leader coming as -1. >> > >> > -- >> > *Moniii* >> > >> > > > > -- > *Moniii* > -- *Moniii*