IIRC, the directory is only created after you send data to the topic.

Do you get errors when your producer sends data?

Another common issue is that you specify replication-factor 3 when you
have fewer than 3 brokers.

Gwen

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:34 AM, Xinyi Su <xiny...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Kafka_2.9.2-0.8.2-beta.  When I use kafka-topic.sh to create
> topic, I observed sometimes the topic is not really created successfully as
> the output shows in console.
>
> Below is my command line:
>
> # bin/kafka-topics.sh  --zookeeper <xxx>:2181 --create --topic zerg.hydra
> --partitions 3 --replication-factor 3
>
> The command prompts "created topic xxx", but local storage directory used
> for this topic under "log.dirs" does not created at all. Normally, there
> should be some folders like zerg.hydra-0, zerg.hydra-1... just named
> according to partion id and assignment policy.
>
> I come across this issue about four times, the disk is not full and
> directory access permission is legal. Do you know about the cause of this
> issue?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Xinyi

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