Hi All, As kafka is known behavior is : number of live brokers can not be less than # replicas when creating a new topic.
I raised a jira (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1182) regarding this for improvement so that topic should be created so that in case of n replication factor we can support n-1 failure support. As mentioned on Future Release Plan of Kafka<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Future+release+plan>, kafka-0.8.1 is going to be released this month. Is 1182 is being considered for this next release ? I just want to know is there any plan to resolve this in incoming releases ? Thanks in advance !! -- *Regards* *Hanish Bansal*