Why would you want to ever do that?
> On Feb 18, 2015, at 15:16, Deepak Dhakal <ddha...@salesforce.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My name is Deepak and I work for salesforce. We are using kafka 8.11 and
> have a question about starting kafka with same broker id.
>
> Steps:
>
> Start a kakfa broker with broker id =1 -> it starts fine with external ZK
> Start another kafka with same broker id =1 .. it does not start the kafka
> which is expected but I am seeing the following log and it keeps retrying
> forever.
>
> Is there way to control how many time a broker tries to starts itself with
> the same broker id ?
>
>
> Thanks
> Deepak
>
> [2015-02-18 14:47:20,713] INFO conflict in /controller data:
> {"version":1,"brokerid":19471,"timestamp":"1424299100135"} stored data:
> {"version":1,"brokerid":19471,"timestamp":"1424288444314"}
> (kafka.utils.ZkUtils$)
>
> [2015-02-18 14:47:20,716] INFO I wrote this conflicted ephemeral node
> [{"version":1,"brokerid":19471,"timestamp":"1424299100135"}] at /controller
> a while back in a different session, hence I will backoff for this node to
> be deleted by Zookeeper and retry (kafka.utils.ZkUtils$)
>
> [2015-02-18 14:47:30,719] INFO conflict in /controller data:
> {"version":1,"brokerid":19471,"timestamp":"1424299100135"} stored data:
> {"version":1,"brokerid":19471,"timestamp":"1424288444314"}
> (kafka.utils.ZkUtils$)
>
> [2015-02-18 14:47:30,722] INFO I wrote this conflicted ephemeral node
> [{"version":1,"brokerid":19471,"timestamp":"1424299100135"}] at /controller
> a while back in a different session, hence I will backoff for this node to
> be deleted by Zookeeper and retry (kafka.utils.ZkUtils$)
