Hi, Harsha
I have not collected logs during creating topics. I will continue to
pay attention to this issue and collect logs if it occurs again.
Thanks.
Xinyi
On 3 February 2015 at 12:46, Harsha <st...@harsha.io> wrote:
> Xinyl,
> Do you have any logs when the kafka-topics.sh unable to create
> topic dirs. Apart from this make sure you point to a different
> dir other than /tmp/kafka-logs since this dir gets delete when
> your machine restarts and not a place to store your topic data.
> -Harsha
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015, at 07:03 PM, Xinyi Su wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > -bash-4.1$ bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper <zkhosst>:2181 --create
> > --topic
> > zerg.hydra --partitions 3 --replication-factor 2
> > Created topic "zerg.hydra".
> >
> > -bash-4.1$ ls -lrt /tmp/kafka-logs/zerg.hydra-2
> > total 0
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 users 0 Feb 3 02:58 00000000000000000000.log
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 users 10485760 Feb 3 02:58 00000000000000000000.index
> >
> > We can see the topic partition directory is created after the shell
> > command
> > is executed since I have not sent any data yet.
> > But this shell command is not always executed successfully, sometimes it
> > fails to create the directory for topic-partition.
> >
> > Besides, the broker number is greater than replication factor in my kafka
> > cluster.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Xinyi
> >
> > On 2 February 2015 at 22:24, Gwen Shapira <gshap...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > >
>
