Yes you can. You can use the partition-reassignment tool and move it to a smaller number of replicas.
-Clark Clark Elliott Haskins III LinkedIn DDS Site Reliability Engineer Kafka, Zookeeper, Samza SRE Mobile: 505.385.1484 BlueJeans: https://www.bluejeans.com/chaskins chask...@linkedin.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarkhaskins There is no place like 127.0.0.1 On 5/21/14, 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.)