In 0.8, the servers and consumers are heavily dependent on ZK to function. With ZK down, the servers cannot manage replicas and consumers cannot assign partitions within the group.
In 0.9 we are going to remove the ZK dependency from consumer clients, but Kafka servers would still be dependent on ZK. Guozhang On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Connie Yang <cybercon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Can Kafka producers, brokers and consumers still be processing messages and > functioning in their normal states if Zookeeper lost its quorum? > > Thanks, > Connie > -- -- Guozhang
