I did that and so now the topic has 4 replicas for a repl count of 3, but only the 'new' replicas exist in the ISR.
The old broker that I want to clear disk space and generally free up resources has fully synced a topic that I want to disassociate from it. Is there a way to do this? On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > We don't have an exact tool for doing this. You may be able to do that > through > > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#basic_ops_increase_replication_factorby > specifying fewer replicas. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:23 AM, David Birdsong <david.birds...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Is there a way to reduce the replication count? I'm trying to spread > > existing partitions across more brokers, but it's hard to decomm a > broker. > > Reducing repl count would suffice for now. > > > > Any tips? > > > > I'm running a mix of 0.8.1.1 and 0.8.1 (I'm upgrading now.) > > >